Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play is a comprehensive guide to the design; construction and manipulation and presentation of shadow puppets; considered by many to be the oldest puppet theatre tradition. Traditional shadow play techniques; together with modern materials and methods and recent explorations into theatre of shadows; are explained with precision and clarity; and illustrated by photographs that include the work of some of the finest shadow players in the world. Topics covered include an introduction to shadow play; its traditions and the principles of shadow puppet design; advice on materials and methods for constructing and controlling traditional shadow puppets and scenery; step-by-step instructions for adding detail and decoration and creating transculent figures in full-colour; detailed methods for constructing shadow theatres using a wide range of lighting techniques; techniques of shadow puppet performance and contemporary explorations with shadow play; and instructions for making animated; silhouette films with digital photography. Lavishly illustrated throughout; Shadow Puppets and Shadow Play sets out detailed instructions for making and presenting shadow puppets by traditional methods and with the latest materials and techniques. Superbly illustrated with 420 colour photographs and helpful tips and suggestions.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy JJBrilliant; short; hard to put down0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A strange; enigmatic book of unparalleled beauty and insight ...By Bill BlazajowskiA strange; enigmatic book of unparalleled beauty and insight; Wartime Kiss provides readers exclusive access to the 1940s through Nemerovs own sensitive engagement with photographs and film stills from the period. He investigates artifacts that appear to represent only a mere cross-section of the era; but his analysis opens avenues to the atmosphere of the entire decade. No longer entirely barred to us; we enter a hybrid form of nostalgia and outright time travel. They may not be our moments; but Nemerov fine-tunes representations of them in such a way that we become an uncanny amalgam of both viewer and participant. This book redefines what it means to read art history.
