American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

by JohnBell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $125.06

  This study analyses the history of puppet, mask, and performing object theatre in the United States over the past 150 years to understand how a peculiarly American mixture of global cultures, commercial theatre, modern-art idealism, and mechanical innovation reinvented the ancient art of puppetry.