American Puppet Modernism: Essays on the Material World in Performance

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Author: John Bell
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/19/2008
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.91w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781403979810

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/07/2008 pg. 29
Choice 03/01/2009

About the Author
John Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, USA.

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