Bread and Puppet St. Francis Preaches to the Birds
date: label: date made
content: 1978
name: label: Associated Name
content: Bread and Puppet Theater
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Bread and Puppet St. Francis Preaches to the Birds, a 1978 children's book created by the radical puppet theater and artistic organization Bread and Puppet Theater, based in Vermont. The book was written by the group's co-founder Peter Schumann and its primitive woodcut style of illustration is emblematic of the Bread and Puppet theater's simple, direct, DIY aesthetic. This copy of the book was printed by Janus Press of Newark, Vermont in 1978.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Vermont, Newark Street
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Virginia
topic: label: associated subject
content: Puppetry
label: associated subject
content: Children's Literature
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.3010.014
label: nonaccession number
content: 2018.3010
label: catalog number
content: 2018.3010.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: booklet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/16 in x 5 9/16 in; 16.35125 cm x 14.12875 cm