Title: American puppetry : collections, history and performance /
Authors: Dircks, Phyllis T.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Puppet theater United States History.; Puppets United States History.
Abstract: "This book consists of essays by the curators of the most significant American puppet collections and by leading scholars in the field. In addition to description and analytical commentary, it includes a history of puppetry in the United States and an overview of its status today, and essays on the theater of Julie Taymor, the Jim Henson Company, Howdy Doody's custody case, puppet conservation, and the development of virtual performance space."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: A snapshot of puppeteers of the United States and Canada / Vincent Anthony -- A short view of American puppetry / Lowell Swortzell -- Puppetry and related materials in the Harvard theatre collection / Fredric Woodbridge Wilson -- Asian puppets at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History / Roy W. Hamilton -- The Center for Puppetry Arts Museum collection / Nancy Lohman Staub -- The Bread & Puppet Theater Company collection / Elka Schumann -- Puppets and "the iconography of drama": the Brander Matthews collection at Columbia University / John Bell -- The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry collection / Phyllis T. Dircks -- Paul McPharlin and puppetry at the Detroit Institute of Arts / John Bell -- The Bil Baird World of Puppets at the Charles H. MacNider Museum / Richard Leet -- The puppet collection of the American Museum of Natural History / Kathy Foley and Ann Wright-Parsons -- The Burr Tillstrom collection and archives at the Chicago Historical Society / Bernard F. Reilly -- The Marionette Theatre of Peter Arnott at Harvard University / Annette Fern -- The Lou Harrison collection: music and puppetry East to West / Kathy Foley -- The Dwiggins Marionettes at the Boston Public Library / Roberta Zonghi -- The puppet collection of the National Museum of American History / Ellen Roney Hughes and Dwight Blocker Bowers -- "Bringing together man and nature": the theater of Julie Taymor / Alan Woods -- Exhibitions and collections of the Jim Henson Company / Leslee Asch -- Howdy Doody in the courtroom: a puppet custody case / Phyllis T. Dircks -- The fundamentals of marionette care / Mina Gregory, Maureen Russell, and Cara Varnell -- Puppetry in cyberspace: developing virtual performance spaces / Mary Flanagan.