From: "PuppeteersUK" <Ray-AT-PuppeteersUK.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:52:25 -0000 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Can Horrendous be Appealing and Efficient? Using a human skull for a puppet is certainly gruesome, so I hesitated to relay the following which is even more so. Apologise in advance if I have overstepped your sensitivities. Harry van Tussenbroek in the 1920's made sculptures as well as puppets using animal bones, and somehow managed to obtain legally from a hospital an aborted human foetus. He used the skull as the head of a puppet and inserted jewels in the eye sockets. There is a picture of it in his book 'Poppen en Marionetten' captioned 'danse macabre (detail)'. Perhaps he thought he was bringing it back to 'life'. [The picture is not contained in the other book of his work "De Poppen van Harry van Tussenbroek' by W F Gouwe, although there are many examples of his other puppets there.] _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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