From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:12:34 -0400
Subject: [Puptcrit] Gustave Baumann


>From time to time, I've come across a book about "hand-carved" marionettes by Gustave Baumann.  The cover has a photo of an intriguing looking dragon.  Before buying the book, I thought about finding other images of his marionettes, and did find some, but they seem fairly conservative and in a different style from that dragon.  So, I haven't bought the book.  But in rereading my copy of McPharlin's book about puppetry in America, I came across an illustration of the Yale Puppeteers' Teatro Torito (p. 358).  It's a copy of an engraving by Baumann.

I wonder if anyone can tell me more about their relationship and Baumann's involvement with puppetry.  And should I buy the book?

Robert Rogers
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