Practical Puppetry A-Z

Practical Puppetry A-Z
Author: Carol R. Exner
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0786415169

Puppetry is an exciting, flexible, malleable art form that can engage the creative forces of children or adults. Puppets can not only tell a story, they can be used to enhance the curriculum, present an idea or a concept in a compelling way, or teach any number of necessary skills. Children and adults presenting a puppet play are given a sense of their own inventive power. This reference work offers an A to Z view of working with puppets. It covers everything from the basic strategies of advertising and marketing puppet productions, to assembling the puppets out of household materials such as paper bags, cereal boxes, or gloves, to the more elaborate sculpting of armatures. Stages, curtains and props are also discussed along with the history of puppetry. Numerous illustrations give a visual of many of the finished products. This work concludes with an annotated bibliography and index.

Masks

Masks
Author: Meryl Doney
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836840445

Introduces a variety of masks people have worn throughout history and provides instructions for related crafts, including a Mexican Day of the Dead skull, Pacific Islander bird mask, and Chinese paper dragon.

Puppets

Puppets
Author: Meryl Doney
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2004-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836840476

Offers the history of puppets as a form of entertainment from around the world, providing instructions for making puppets from Japan, India, and Burma.

The Elementary School Library Collection

The Elementary School Library Collection
Author: Brodart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1224
Release: 1996-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780872721050

A primary source for the continuous development, evaluation, and maintenance of existing collections. Includes books, big books, large type books, periodicals, art and study prints, pictures, sound filmstrips, sound recording discs and cassettes, compact discs, multimedia kits, videocassettes, microcomputer software, videodiscs, and CD-ROM products.

Faces of Your Soul

Faces of Your Soul
Author: Elise Dirlam Ching
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1583948767

In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom. The authors start by stressing the balance of complementary opposites—left brain/right brain, challenge/comfort, practicality/the sacred—as crucial to beginning the journey. Then through guided imagery, they lead readers through subconscious realms to connect with archetypal sources of inner wisdom. This process frees the creative and healing spirit, connecting explorers with the body's instinctive intelligence, which expresses itself through the creation of art. Central to this process is a detailed description of maskmaking—including how to work with a partner to mold each other's gauze mask—balanced with self-explorations of the inner experience of this event. Poetry, personal stories, photographs, and a gallery of Kaleo Ching's evocative totemic masks expand the reader's experience of this richly resonant journey to self.

Indian Puppets

Indian Puppets
Author: Sampa Ghosh
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 817017435X

Puppetry Originated In India And Travelled Across The Seven Seas To The Eastern And Western World As Vouched By Many Scholars. Puppets Dated Back To A Period Well Before Bharata S Natya Shastra And Have Continued Unabated Throughout The Centuries In Almost All Indian States. Puppetry Is One Enduring Form, Which Has Entertained Masses And Educated People. The Famous Puppeteers Of Rajasthan Are Really Acrobats, Who Only Put On Puppet Shows When They Move Out Of Villages. These And A Thousand Other Scintillating Facts Come Out Of This Exciting Book For The Reader S Entertainment And Elucidation. Puppets Are By No Means For Only Children, -- As The Puppeteers Of Orissa Sing And Dance About The Romantic Love Of Radha And Krishna, And Keralan Puppets Narrate Kathakali Stories In The Same Make-Up And Costumes.The Book Aims At Giving A Connected Account Of The Indian Puppets: Their Variety, Their Multiple Functions, Their Craft, Their Animation And Their Connections With Other Related Arts In Five Separate Parts. The Book Also Contains For The First Time In Any Book On Puppetry -- Four Important Appendices: Museums In India Containing Puppets, Directory Of Indian Puppeteers, Global Bibliography On Puppets And A Relevant Glossary. The World Of Indian Puppets Is Seen In Vivid Colours With Scores Of Coloured Photographs And Many Line-Drawings And Half-Tone Pictures --- In Their Many-Sided Splendour: Variety Of The Glove, Rod, String, Shadow, And Human Puppets And A Myriad Background Stories Of The Puppet-Masters And Their Imaginative Landscape Of Free Creativity.

Masks from Antiquity to the Modern Era

Masks from Antiquity to the Modern Era
Author: Herbert Inhaber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

More than 1,200 citations, ranging from making masks in kindergarten to academic books on the anthropological theory of masks.