BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/1/2008
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 84

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780884541134 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CDN $47.50 GBP £30.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Philadelphia
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 01/18/08-03/29/09

Santa Monica
Santa Monica Museum of Art, 05/16/08-08/09/08

Honolulu
The Contemporary Museum, 09/05/08-11/23/08

Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum, 01/17/09-3/29/09

Seattle
The Frye Art Museum, 05/16/09-09/13/09

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The Puppet Show

Edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni. Text by Ingrid Schaffner, Carin Kuoni, Michael Taylor, et al. Acknowledgements by Claudia Gould.

At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses--with both humor and gravity--on the surprisingly prodigious amount of puppet imagery in contemporary art. It takes as its historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avant-garde art history: Alfred Jarry's 1896 puppet play Ubu Roi, which the South African artist William Kentridge, in collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company, has adapted into an allegory of apartheid. Other puppets are featured in works from more than 30 well-established, international artists, including Anne Chu, Terence Gower, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Jankowski, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith and Kara Walker. This volume also looks at puppets in Modern art and popular culture--from Sophie Tauber Arp’s Dada marionettes to the Internet phenomenon of the “sockpuppet”--a well-known person’s fake online persona, created in order to boost public opinion.