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Steve Tillis

Toward an Aesthetics of the Puppet

Puppetry as a Theatrical Art

Steve Tillis

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English
Praeger Publishers Inc
23 June 1992
Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre
Series: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
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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Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   No. 47.
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   482g
ISBN:   9780313283598
ISBN 10:   0313283591
Series:   Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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