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This Volume, Which Originally Appeared As A Special Issue Of Tdr/The Drama Review, Looks At Puppets, Masks, And Other Performing Objects From A Broad Range Of Perspectives.Puppets And Masks Are Central To Some Of The Oldest Worldwide Forms Of Art Making And Performance, As Well As Some Of The Newest. In The Twentieth Century, French Symbolists, Russian Futurists And Constructivists, Prague School Semioticians, And Avantgarde Artists Around The World Have All Explored The Experimental, Social, And Political Value Of Performing Objects. In Recent Years, Puppets, Masks, And Objects Have Been The Focus Of Broadway Musicals, Postmodernist Theory, Political Spectacle, Performance Art, And New Academic Programs, For Example, At The California Institute Of The Arts.This Volume, Which Originally Appeared As A Special Issue Of Tdr/The Drama Review, Looks At Puppets, Masks, And Other Performing Objects From A Broad Range Of Perspectives. The Topics Include Stephen Kaplin'S New Theory Of Puppet Theater Based On Distance And Ratio, A Historical Overview Of Mechanical And Electrical Performing Objects, A Yiddish Puppet Theater Of The 1920S And 1930S, An Account Of The Bread And Puppet Theater'S Domestic Resurrection Circus And A Manifesto By Its Founder, Peter Schumann, And Interviews With Director Julie Taymor And Peruvian Maskmaker Gustavo Boada. The Book Also Includes The First English Translation Of Pyotr Bogatyrev'S Influential 1923 Essay On Czech And Russian Puppet And Folk Theaters.Contributorsjohn Bell, Pyotr Bogatyrev, Stephen Kaplin, Edward Portnoy, Richard Schechner, Peter Schumann, Salil Singh, Theodora Skipitares, Mark Sussman, Steve Tilllis
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