Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 21:52:26 -0500 (EST)
From: John Bell <bellj-AT-is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: Bufano and


We (Leslee Ash of the Henson Foundation, Barbara Stratyner of
NYPL and myself) exhibited two of Bufano's _Oedipus Rex_ puppets at the
recent "Puppets and Performing Objects in the Twentieth Century"
exhibition at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.  
Although some of the Oedipus puppets are in Detroit, Oedipus and Jocasta
are part of the Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University.  We
had hoped to reunite all the Oedipus puppets for the exhibition, but could
not get a response from Detroit; I can't help but feel that if Audley
Grossman were still alive something would have worked out.

Bufano wrote an interesting essay, "The Marionette in the Theater," about
the American puppet revival in the 1920s, for _The Little Review_ in 1926.
It was included in the packet of essays assembled for the first
International Festival of Puppetry in 1992.

John Bell



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