The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this haunting and beautiful book, Kenneth Gross takes us on a meditative journey through the world of puppet theater, exploring the mysterious fascination of these unsettling objects. Engaging particular aspects of the puppet, from its blunt grotesquerie to its talent for metamorphosis, ...
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The puppet can entertain or terrify, evoke the innocence of childhood, or become a magical entity, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets are often creepy things, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this haunting and beautiful book, Kenneth Gross takes us on a meditative journey through the world of puppet theater, exploring the mysterious fascination of these unsettling objects. Engaging particular aspects of the puppet, from its blunt grotesquerie to its talent for metamorphosis, Gross teases out their meanings, showing us the puppet in the guise of angel, seducer, demon, and destroyer. On a global tour of puppets onstage, he takes us to the raucous Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in the United States and Europe where puppets enact everything from Shakespearean tragedy to surrealist fables of discovery and loss. At the same time, he explores the puppet in poetry and fiction-including Collodi's cruel, wooden Pinocchio; puppetlike characters in Dickens and Kafka; Rilke's innocent puppet-angels; and the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth's Micky Sabbath - as well as in the work of artists such as Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. A lovely, expressive book about re-seeing what we know, or what we think we know, "Puppet" evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in art and life.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 206 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010052565 Type of material Book Personal name Gross, Kenneth. Main title Puppet: an essay on uncanny life / Kenneth Gross. Published/Created Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Description 206 p. : ill. (some col. ); 23 cm. ISBN 9780226309583 (cloth: alk. paper) 0226309584 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification PN1972. G766 2011 Contents Prologue: the madness of puppets--A conversation in Rome--Bad manners--The scale of the puppet--The fate of hands--Wooden acting--Fables for a puppet theater--Destroying the puppet show--Hunger--The blackened puppet--Shadows--A test of innocence--Coda: everything else. LC Subjects Puppets in literature. Puppet theater--History and criticism. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 791.5/3
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