Puppetry and Puppets

Puppetry and Puppets
Author: Eileen Blumenthal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2005
Genre: Puppet theater
ISBN: 9780500512265

Puppets have existed in one form or another in almost every culture throughout the history of man. In Puppetry: A World History, Eileen Blumenthal provides a comprehensive overview of the history and technique of puppetry and examines in depth and detail the unique nature and abilities of puppets and the countless roles they have played in human societies across the globe for thousands of years. Blumenthal draws examples from an astonishing array of puppeteers and performances, as well as works of art and historical artifacts to provide readers with a comprehensive view of the world of constructed actors and the eclectic, and often eccentric, artists who created them. From bunraku to Miss Piggy, from the shadow puppets of Java to Howdy Doody, from African marionettes with outsize genitalia to sweet and loveable Lamb Chop, from Senor Wences's famous hand (literally) puppet to the minimalism of Russian puppet master Sergei Obraztsov.

Puppets and Puppet Theatre

Puppets and Puppet Theatre
Author: David Currell
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1847977901

Puppets & Puppet Theatre is essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing with puppets. It concentrates on designing, making and performing with the main types of puppet, and is extensively illustrated in full colour throughout.Topics covered include: nature and heritage of puppet theatre; the anatomy of a puppet, its design and structure; materials and methods for sculpting, modelling and casting; step-by-step instructions for making glove, hand, rod and shadow puppets & marionettes; puppet control and manipulation; staging principles, stage and scenery design; principles of sound & lighting and finally, organisation of a show.

Puppets and Puppetry

Puppets and Puppetry
Author: Peter Fraser
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1980
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play
Author: David Currell
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2015-05-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785000624

Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design, construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets, considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques, together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations into theatre of shadows, are explained with precision and clarity, and illustrated by photographs that include the work of some of the finest shadow players in the world. Topics covered include an introduction to shadow play, its traditions and the principles of shadow puppet design; advice on materials and methods for constructing and controlling traditional shadow puppets and scenery; step-by-step instructions for adding detail and decoration and creating transculent figures in full-colour; detailed methods for constructing shadow theatres using a wide range of lighting techniques; techniques of shadow puppet performance and contemporary explorations with shadow play; and instructions for making animated, silhouette films with digital photography. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play sets out detailed instructions for making and presenting shadow puppets by traditional methods and with the latest materials and techniques. Superbly illustrated with 420 colour photographs and helpful tips and suggestions.

The Complete Book of Puppetry

The Complete Book of Puppetry
Author: George Latshaw
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486156990

Expert guide explains how to construct several types of puppets and presents exercises for developing distinctive voices, learning puppet movement. Includes stage design, writing plays, directing productions, more. Over 150 black-and-white illustrations.

The Complete Book of Puppetry

The Complete Book of Puppetry
Author: David Currell
Publisher: Plays
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1975
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

Introduces the history of puppetry and gives instructions for making various types of puppets, creating stage sets, and producing plays.

Making Puppets Come Alive

Making Puppets Come Alive
Author: Larry Engler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486293783

"The best book on hand puppetry we've seen." — The Whole Kids Catalog. Lucid, easy-to-follow book teaches beginners how to create a full working range of puppet motions and emotions. Also covers elements of good puppet theatrical technique: voice use and synchronization, stage deportment and interactions, improvisation, simple staging, lighting effects, and more. All clearly explained and beautifully illustrated.

Puppet

Puppet
Author: Kenneth Gross
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226309606

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects—objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppetlike characters in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art.

Puppet Mania!

Puppet Mania!
Author: John Kennedy
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781581803723

Explores the amazing world of puppetry. Learn how to make 13 cool puppets, then bring your creations to life.

An Introduction to Puppets and Puppet-making

An Introduction to Puppets and Puppet-making
Author: David Currell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 79
Release: 1996
Genre: Puppet making
ISBN: 9781856278799

For what must be one of the most creative and satisfying of crafts, Puppets and Puppet-Making provides the perfect introduction to the art as well as the means for mastering the more complicated skills and subtle effects.