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Puppet cabaret: visual idioms, performance technologies and the poetics of Czech special puppets in a European context 1850–1950 : (from artistic automata through trick and variety puppets, to puppet cabaret and variety show clowns and acrobats)

JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie and Pavel JIRÁSEK

Basic information

Original name

Puppet cabaret: visual idioms, performance technologies and the poetics of Czech special puppets in a European context 1850–1950 : (from artistic automata through trick and variety puppets, to puppet cabaret and variety show clowns and acrobats)

Authors

JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Pavel JIRÁSEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Czech Stage Art and Stage Design. Special Issue of Theatralia/Yorick, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1803-845X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Theatre Faculty

Keywords in English

Czech puppet theatre; marionettes; traditional theatre; folk theatre; travelling theatre; variety puppets; trick puppets; Modernism

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 5/3/2020 12:50, doc. Mgr. Pavel Jirásek, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

This article brings an analysis of the history and development of variety and trick puppets in the Czech lands between 1850 and 1950 together with a discussion of the extant artefacts, with a particular focus on the mechanics of these special puppets and their innovations during the Modernist decades in a European context. Variety and trick puppets were also significant components of the traditional marionettists' productions and complement, and the article also considers the extant ephemera surrounding that tradition of performance.