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Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet: Puppetry as a Theatrical Art: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Autor Steve Tillis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iun 1992 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Societies around the world have their puppet traditions and puppetry remains a vital theatrical art; yet puppetry has received little attention in the theoretical study of theatre. The present study offers an aesthetic theory and vocabulary for practitioners, critics, and audiences to utilize in creating, evaluating, viewing, and describing the age-old, yet ever-new art of the puppet.Asserting that no satisfactory theory or descriptive vocabulary has yet been advanced for the theatrical puppet, Steve Tillis seeks the underlying principles through observation and analysis of puppetry in all its manifestations. He considers the disparate range of puppet performance and puppet construction to determine what is constant and what is variable and explores such theoretical problems as how a puppet is to be defined; how its appeal is to be explained, and how its performance is to be described. Reviewing standard responses to these problems in a thorough survey of the literature on puppetry, he then offers new solutions. In an interesting coda, Tillis discusses the power of the puppet as a metaphor of humanity and a term applied to particular people. This is an essential text not only for college puppetry courses but also for all serious puppet artists, as well as scholars and researchers in performance theory and practice, and more general audiences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313283598
ISBN-10: 0313283591
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Playwright, performer, and director, STEVE TILLIS has worked professionally in the theatre since 1974. His article The Appeal of the Puppet: God or Toy? was published in The Language of the Puppet, edited by Laurence R. Kominz and Mark Levinson.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroductionDefining and Explaining the PuppetStandard DefinitionsStandard ExplanationsA New Basis for Definition and ExplanationDescribing the PuppetStandard DescriptionsA New Basis for DescriptionCoda-Metaphor and the PuppetWorks CitedIndex