American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance - Paperback
by John Bell (Author)
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. 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.
John Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA.
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