The Puppet and the Modern: Visual Style of Czech Family Puppet Theaters
JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie; JIRÁSEK, Pavel
2014
Autor(es): JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie; JIRÁSEK, Pavel
Título: The Puppet and the Modern: Visual Style of Czech Family Puppet Theaters, Theater Clubs and Art Scenes in the Early 20th Century as a Unique Reflection of Avant-Garde and Modernista Currents by Czech artist
Publicação: Revnice: Arbor vitae, 2014
ISBN: 978-80-7467-056-5
Assunto(s):
Teatro de Marionetas -- História -- República Checa
Teatro de Marionetas -- República Checa
Marionetas -- História -- Europa -- República Checa
Marionetistas -- República Checa
Construtores de Marionetas -- República Checa
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword - 14
Czech Puppet Stage Design between 1900-1950 - 21
I. Puppet Stage Design in the Era of the Puppetry Renaissance - 34
Modern Czech Puppet Stage Design Begins in Retrospect - 37
The Foundational Work of Mikoláš Aleš - 46
Aleš’s Puppets - Personification of the National Spirit - 52
Art Nouveau Decorations from Mounted Pieces of Paper by Rudolf Livora and Zdenek Weidner - 56
Decorations by Czech Artists - 58
II. Expressive Exploitations of Traditional Puppet Carving in Modern Morphology - 62
Distinguished Marionettes - 65
The Baroque Style of the Sucharda Family - 74
The Carving Tradition of Puppet Workshops in Kutná Hora - 80
Carvers of Traditional Wooden Marionettes - 84
Magical and Manneristic Alois Šroif - 88
III. Puppets and Stage Design in Late Art Nouveau and Art Deco - 94
The Puppetry Renaissence is Coming - 97
Josef Šejnost’s Caricature Puppets - 102
The Demonic Figures of Josef Váchal - 104
The Atmospheric Carvings of Folkman - 107
Ladislav Šaloun’s Art Nouveau Modelation and Costumes - 110
Vít Skála’s Straightforward Puppet Realism - 114
Ota Bubenícek’s Thematic-Impressionistic Sets - 120
Traditional Historism by Karel Štapfer - 124
The Puppet Antiquity of Vladimír Zákrejs - 128
Puppets for the Artel Artists’ Cooperative - 130
Charmed by Hand Puppets - Karel Kobrle - 134
Stanislav Kulhánek’s Shadow Theater - 138
Karel Svolinský as a Marionette Carver - 140
Josef Kopenec’s Exaggerated Puppets - 144
Artists’ Experimental Family Theaters - 150
Bohuslav Metelka’s Puppets with Comic Faces - 154
The Realm of Puppets, Vojtech Sucharda and Anna Suchardová-Brichová - 158
IV. Puppets and Stage Design for Theaters Clubs and Family Puppet Theaters - 174
The Decorations and Puppets of Theater Clubs and Family and School Theaters - 177
Jan Král’s Family and School Theaters and Theater Clubs - 186
Theaters and Puppets by Antonín M?nzberg’s Puppet Company - 192
The Development of Aleš’s puppets Types by the Modrý and Žanda Company - 200
Stylized Geometric Decorations by the Architect Miroslav Kolár - 206
Artuš Scheiner’s Late Fairy-tale Art Nouveau - 208
Carved Marionettes for Theater Clubs - 210
Josef Chocol - an Example of a Universal Marionette Carver - 216
Decorations for Theater Clubs in the 1920s - 222
V. Avant-Garde Puppet Theater, the Functionalist Morphology of Lather Puppets - 230
The Theater of Objects by Jirí Vendelín Kroha - 233
Ladislav Sutnar’s Joyful and Colorful Puppet Experiments - 240
Lathed Wooden Puppets as Toys for the Artel Cooperative - 248
The Producers’ Attempts to Revive Handmade Toys - 252
Bohumil Šippich’s Stylized Puppets - 256
Arts and Crafts Workshops and Puppets by Alois Petrus - 261
Josef Cejka’s Bejbls - 263
Lathed Wooden Puppets by Rudolf Kubícek in a Folk Spirit - 272
Lathed Wooden Puppets Offered by Companies A. Storch and JEKA - 276
Toys and Puppets in the 1920s - 282
Production of the Blank and Schowanek Company - 284
Construction Changes in Puppet Theaters from the Early 20th Century to the 1920s - 290
VI. The Development of Modernist Tendencies in Puppet Theater Throughout the 1930s and Early 1940s - 298
The Czech Puppet Cult on the Threshold of the 1930s - 301
The Apas Company’s Movable Puppet Chins - 312
Vladimír Matoušek’s Stage Design Experiments with Bohumil Tichý’s Puppets in Theater Radost - 314
Caricatures of Characters by Ondrej Sekora - 316
Modern Stage Designer Josef Skupa - 320
Handcrafted Puppets by Gustav Nosek - 329
Cabaret Puppets by Jan Vavrík- Rýz - 336
Stage Sets by Skupa’s Assistant Antonín Procházka - 340
Trnka’s Puppets and the Stage as the Evocation of Feeling - 342
Shifts in Style at the Puppet Theater of Art Education towards the Allusive Sets by Bohumil Budešínský and František Vojácek - 348
Emanuel Famíra’s Expressive Hand Puppets - 356
Jan Malík, Renaissance Man of Puppetry - 362
Changes in Puppet Theater Construction from the Early 1930s to the Beginning of the Second World War- 373
VII. Czech Puppet Stage Design during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in the Second Half of the 1940s - 384
The Opression of Czech Puppetry as a Way to the Professional Puppet Theater - 387
Jaroslav Šváb’s Modernist Family Theaters - 398
Rudolf Ríha and Adolf Šrutek’s Lathed Wooden Puppets - 404
Rudolf Kokoška’s Lathed Puppets and Hand Puppets - 410
Experiments of the Student Ajdivadlo - 414
Vít Grus and Zdenek Podhurský’s Simplified Forms and Functional Puppets - 417
Expressive Hand Puppets by the BIBI Company - 420
Jaroslav Král’s Aristocratic Marionettes - 424
Mid-20th Century Puppet Stage Design - 427
Fifty Years of Modern Puppet Stage Design - 434
Listo of Images - 442
Bibliography - 457
Recommended Bibliography - 461
About the Authors - 466
Index - 467
Autor(es): JIRÁSKOVÁ, Marie; JIRÁSEK, Pavel
Título: The Puppet and the Modern: Visual Style of Czech Family Puppet Theaters, Theater Clubs and Art Scenes in the Early 20th Century as a Unique Reflection of Avant-Garde and Modernista Currents by Czech artist
Publicação: Revnice: Arbor vitae, 2014
ISBN: 978-80-7467-056-5
Assunto(s):
Teatro de Marionetas -- História -- República Checa
Teatro de Marionetas -- República Checa
Marionetas -- História -- Europa -- República Checa
Marionetistas -- República Checa
Construtores de Marionetas -- República Checa
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword - 14
Czech Puppet Stage Design between 1900-1950 - 21
I. Puppet Stage Design in the Era of the Puppetry Renaissance - 34
Modern Czech Puppet Stage Design Begins in Retrospect - 37
The Foundational Work of Mikoláš Aleš - 46
Aleš’s Puppets - Personification of the National Spirit - 52
Art Nouveau Decorations from Mounted Pieces of Paper by Rudolf Livora and Zdenek Weidner - 56
Decorations by Czech Artists - 58
II. Expressive Exploitations of Traditional Puppet Carving in Modern Morphology - 62
Distinguished Marionettes - 65
The Baroque Style of the Sucharda Family - 74
The Carving Tradition of Puppet Workshops in Kutná Hora - 80
Carvers of Traditional Wooden Marionettes - 84
Magical and Manneristic Alois Šroif - 88
III. Puppets and Stage Design in Late Art Nouveau and Art Deco - 94
The Puppetry Renaissence is Coming - 97
Josef Šejnost’s Caricature Puppets - 102
The Demonic Figures of Josef Váchal - 104
The Atmospheric Carvings of Folkman - 107
Ladislav Šaloun’s Art Nouveau Modelation and Costumes - 110
Vít Skála’s Straightforward Puppet Realism - 114
Ota Bubenícek’s Thematic-Impressionistic Sets - 120
Traditional Historism by Karel Štapfer - 124
The Puppet Antiquity of Vladimír Zákrejs - 128
Puppets for the Artel Artists’ Cooperative - 130
Charmed by Hand Puppets - Karel Kobrle - 134
Stanislav Kulhánek’s Shadow Theater - 138
Karel Svolinský as a Marionette Carver - 140
Josef Kopenec’s Exaggerated Puppets - 144
Artists’ Experimental Family Theaters - 150
Bohuslav Metelka’s Puppets with Comic Faces - 154
The Realm of Puppets, Vojtech Sucharda and Anna Suchardová-Brichová - 158
IV. Puppets and Stage Design for Theaters Clubs and Family Puppet Theaters - 174
The Decorations and Puppets of Theater Clubs and Family and School Theaters - 177
Jan Král’s Family and School Theaters and Theater Clubs - 186
Theaters and Puppets by Antonín M?nzberg’s Puppet Company - 192
The Development of Aleš’s puppets Types by the Modrý and Žanda Company - 200
Stylized Geometric Decorations by the Architect Miroslav Kolár - 206
Artuš Scheiner’s Late Fairy-tale Art Nouveau - 208
Carved Marionettes for Theater Clubs - 210
Josef Chocol - an Example of a Universal Marionette Carver - 216
Decorations for Theater Clubs in the 1920s - 222
V. Avant-Garde Puppet Theater, the Functionalist Morphology of Lather Puppets - 230
The Theater of Objects by Jirí Vendelín Kroha - 233
Ladislav Sutnar’s Joyful and Colorful Puppet Experiments - 240
Lathed Wooden Puppets as Toys for the Artel Cooperative - 248
The Producers’ Attempts to Revive Handmade Toys - 252
Bohumil Šippich’s Stylized Puppets - 256
Arts and Crafts Workshops and Puppets by Alois Petrus - 261
Josef Cejka’s Bejbls - 263
Lathed Wooden Puppets by Rudolf Kubícek in a Folk Spirit - 272
Lathed Wooden Puppets Offered by Companies A. Storch and JEKA - 276
Toys and Puppets in the 1920s - 282
Production of the Blank and Schowanek Company - 284
Construction Changes in Puppet Theaters from the Early 20th Century to the 1920s - 290
VI. The Development of Modernist Tendencies in Puppet Theater Throughout the 1930s and Early 1940s - 298
The Czech Puppet Cult on the Threshold of the 1930s - 301
The Apas Company’s Movable Puppet Chins - 312
Vladimír Matoušek’s Stage Design Experiments with Bohumil Tichý’s Puppets in Theater Radost - 314
Caricatures of Characters by Ondrej Sekora - 316
Modern Stage Designer Josef Skupa - 320
Handcrafted Puppets by Gustav Nosek - 329
Cabaret Puppets by Jan Vavrík- Rýz - 336
Stage Sets by Skupa’s Assistant Antonín Procházka - 340
Trnka’s Puppets and the Stage as the Evocation of Feeling - 342
Shifts in Style at the Puppet Theater of Art Education towards the Allusive Sets by Bohumil Budešínský and František Vojácek - 348
Emanuel Famíra’s Expressive Hand Puppets - 356
Jan Malík, Renaissance Man of Puppetry - 362
Changes in Puppet Theater Construction from the Early 1930s to the Beginning of the Second World War- 373
VII. Czech Puppet Stage Design during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in the Second Half of the 1940s - 384
The Opression of Czech Puppetry as a Way to the Professional Puppet Theater - 387
Jaroslav Šváb’s Modernist Family Theaters - 398
Rudolf Ríha and Adolf Šrutek’s Lathed Wooden Puppets - 404
Rudolf Kokoška’s Lathed Puppets and Hand Puppets - 410
Experiments of the Student Ajdivadlo - 414
Vít Grus and Zdenek Podhurský’s Simplified Forms and Functional Puppets - 417
Expressive Hand Puppets by the BIBI Company - 420
Jaroslav Král’s Aristocratic Marionettes - 424
Mid-20th Century Puppet Stage Design - 427
Fifty Years of Modern Puppet Stage Design - 434
Listo of Images - 442
Bibliography - 457
Recommended Bibliography - 461
About the Authors - 466
Index - 467