Federal Theatre - Marionette Theatre presents RUR Remo Bufano director. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Federal Theatre - Marionette Theatre presents RUR Remo Bufano director. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Federal Theatre - Marionette Theatre presents RUR Remo Bufano director.
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Few stage works of the 1930s connect as directly to modern life as *RUR*, Karel Čapek's 1920 Czech play that introduced the word "robot." This poster advertises a marionette staging of it under the Federal theater Project, the Works Progress Administration unit that sponsored live drama and puppet shows for working audiences. The director credited here, Remo Bufano, was a puppeteer who treated marionettes as serious performers. The 1936 silkscreen design uses flat, bold color and simplified forms, a style typical of WPA poster art.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press c1987 no. 94 · Bufano Remo. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--1930-1940. Puppets--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 992 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 6_Federal_Theatre_Marion_1936 |
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