The Art of the Marionette
Posted in Podcasts on March 29th, 2005
Talk about a great little pocket of popular culture! You think I
Robot is news? Not even close. Not one, but three artists wrote
this same story in the early 1900’s to be played by machine-like
marionettes that are cooler than anything in today’s sci-fi. Check
out R.U.R. by Karel Capek, William Dwiggins Millenium I, and
Fortunato Depero and his cubist creation Plastic Dances. For a
current take on marionettes, check out www.ScottRadke.com for
something eerie and fabulous.
