Good Puppetry Books

[mzredbox]

Not necessarily for beginners, but good books for reference.

Titles and a bit of info please.

Thanks.

 

[Tim]

Puppet making?

Puppet history?

Puppet scripts?

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Type of puppets?

 

[wes]

for pure inspiration I would go with Carrol Spinney Book the Wisdom of Big Bird it talked alot about puppetry.

 

[Punch'n'Judy]

Expert Puppet Technique - Bramall and Somerville, Faber & Faber...out of print but one of the few books that really looks closely at manipulation.

The Jan Bussel books, also out of print, are well worth a look if you get a chance: The Puppet's Progress, The Puppets and I, Through Wooden Eyes.

An excellent source of used/out of print puppet books is:

http://www.puppetbooks.co.uk/

James

 

[mzredbox]

I guess, mostly puppet making

 

[Buck-Beaver]

It really depends on the type of puppet you are interested in.

John Kennedy has great "puppet craft" books (Puppet Mania! & Puppet Planet)

Some of the best books on puppetry (mostly rod puppets) I have ever read are by Hansjürgen Fettig.

The Art of the Puppet by Bill Baird is long out of print, but great if you can find it in a library. It's not really a how-to book but can provide a lot of inspiration. Puppetry: A World History By Eileen Blumenthal is really good for inspiration too.

What type of puppets do you want to build?

 

[mzredbox]

maybe some rod puppets, bunraku, if possible human arm

 

[mzredbox]

hey... I'm going to order
Glove and Rod Puppets https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/ListingDetails?bi=852765583 by Hansjürgen Fettig
does anybody know anything about it?

 

[Buck-Beaver]

It's very good (all of Fettig's books are) but where did you manage to find a copy? I thought the English language edition had been out of print for years.