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Marionettes, Masks And Shadows (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,043
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Marionettes, Masks And Shadows (Hardcover): Wilfred H. Mills

Marionettes, Masks And Shadows (Hardcover)

Wilfred H. Mills

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MARIONETTES MASKS and SHADOWS BY WINIFRED H. JVIILLS Head of Art Department, Fairmount Junior High Training School, Cleveland, Ohio LOUISE M. DUNN Assistant Curator of Education, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Illustrated by CORYDON BELL Garden City, New York DOUBLEDAY, DORAN COMPANY, INC. 1928 To Adventurers among Puppets and Plays CONTENTS MARIONETTES I. The Marionette Its Family Tree . II. The Marionette Its Famous Friends III. Choosing Your Play IV. Making Your Stage V. Making Your Marionette VI. Making Your Scenery .... VII. Making Your Properties VIIL Lighting Your Stage .... IX Training Your Puppeteers . X. Presenting Your Play . . i 25 33 47 S 84 1 02 112 VII Contents MASKS . I. The Map of the Mask 143 II. Occasions for Wearing the Mask . . 152 III. Making the Mask ....... 160 IV. The Costume and Setting for the Mask. 168 V. The Mask with Pantomime, Music and Dance . 196 SHADOWS I. The Mystery of the Shadow ., II. Making a Shadow Play . III. Producing Cut-out Shadow Plays IV. Producing Human Shadow Plays Bibliography . . . Index 205 212 215 225 24 265 Vlll ILLUSTRATIONS Tree of the Marionettes .... Frontispiece HALFTONES MARIONETTES FACING PAGE Marionette play, Men of Iron given by ninth year pupils, Fairmount Junior High School, Cleveland, Ohio 18 Scenes from Marionette play, cc Adventures of Alice, given by ninth year pupils Fairmount Junior High School at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Marionettes made by Tuesday Marionette Club 34 ix Illustrations FACING PAGE Scenes from the Marionette play, Men of Iron 98 Marionette Ballet, Tetrouchka .... 114 Upper. Marionettes from The Adventures of Alice. Lower Left. Bear and Trainer from Men of Iron Lower Right. Marionettefrom Tetrouchka. 130 MASKS Masks made by students in Summer School, Cleveland School of Education. Indian Corn Maidens. Clowns. Japanese Characters Old Woman, Devil Mask, Old Man. .... 146 Upper Row. Bishop, Queen, King, Middle Row. Lady in Waiting, Crusader, Child Lower Row. Jester, Old Woman, Little Jack, 1 50 Masks. Upper Mummer, Queen, Jester Middle Egyptian Priest, Persian Poet, Greek Maiden Lower. Columbine and Pierrot . . 158 Characters from Christmas Mask . ., . 162 Scene from Christmas Mask given by ninth year Fairmount Junior High School pupils at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Lady in Waiting, King . 178 SHADOWS Upper Scene from cut out shadow play, The Traveling Musicians of Bremen-Lower Behind the scene in a cut out shadow play, given by eighth grade pupils of Fairmount Junior High School, Cleveland, Ohio . . 210 Illustrations FACING PAGE Scenes from the cut out shadow play, The Traveling Musicians of Bremen. . . . 214 Behind the scenes in the human shadow play The Indian and the Oki. 222 Scenes from the human shadow play, c The Indian and the Old 226 More scenes from the human shadow play, The Indian and the Oki 232 Scenes from the human shadow play, The Shepherdess 236 FULL PAGE LINE DRAWINGS PAGE Constructional drawing of Marionette stage, back view 50 Side view of Marionette stage, with lighting 51 Knight Marionette 77 FACING PAGE The Map of the Mask . 144 XI

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Imprint: Read Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2008
First published: November 2008
Authors: Wilfred H. Mills
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 978-1-4437-2511-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Other public performances & spectacles > Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre
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LSN: 1-4437-2511-0
Barcode: 9781443725118

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