Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:48:35 -0700 To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org From: Mary Decker <marydeck-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: [Puptcrit] RE: Paul Klee book Hi Ray and All, The book I have (entitled simply "Paul Klee") offers only two pages of very flowery text. The rest is color plates. But in the few written words, the book says that Paul Klee's puppets were used only by his children, in the privacy of their own home. Honestly, though, there is such emphasis in this book on being flowery and artsy, that I wonder if the words reflect true research and facts. Here is another quote: "Deeply moved, I asked whether it might be possible to bring these puppets out of their seclusion and present them to the public; to install them in a museum and there begin the puppet show anew, on a larger stage than the one where they had once performed for a child and his family. They had been the privileged playthings of a little boy and his family circle, the maskers of a private dreamworld of allegory and fable. Were they now to be brought before an unknown audience, their seeming pact of silence suddenly broken? Provided that the museum could exhibit them to good advantage, Mr. Felix Klee agreed to the idea of revealing the puppets to the public at the Neuchatel Museum." That was in 1977. It sounds like the puppets were never used for public performances. Mary Decker ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:26:57 +0100 From: "Ray DaSilva" <dasilva-AT-puppetbooks.co.uk> Subject: RE: [Puptcrit] Paul Klee book To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org> Message-ID: <003201c5a6f3$49df4580$4d469451-AT-PuppeteersUK> Dear Mary and all I am still keen to know if the puppets illustrated were ever used in any public performances or were they just for home entertainment. Is there anything in the book to indicate otherwise? Jurkowski says "Between 1916 and 1925 Klee made puppets for his son Felix. The heads were made of gypsum [plaster of Paris] and the puppets were dressed by a famous maker, Sasha Morenthaler. Klee's puppet theatre was taken to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dassau in 1920, where it apparently offered excellent productions impressing all who saw them." Hist European Pptry Volume2 P62. But perhaps those performances may have had nothing to do with Klee? Ray _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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