{"product_id":"king-stag-carlo-gozzis-tragicomedy-in-a-staging-for-marionettes-by-sophie-taeuber-arp-renzs-morax-and-werner-wolff-9783039422746","title":"King Stag: Carlo Gozzi's Tragicomedy in a Staging for Marionettes by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, René Morax, and Werner Wolff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of René Morax and Werner Wolff's avant-garde adaption of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKing Stag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Stag\u003c\/i\u003e is a play originally written in 1762 by Italian playwright and champion of commedia dell'arte Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806). It is about love and conspiracy at the court of King Deramo. In search of a bride, Deramo falls victim to the intrigues of his adversary Tartaglia and is temporarily transformed into a stag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1918, on the occasion of a major art exhibition staged in Zurich by the modernist association Schweizer Werkbund, Swiss dramatist René Morax (1873-1963) and director Werner Wolff (1886-1972) produced a modern adaption of Gozzi's fairy-tale play that turned it into an amusing Dada parody of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung's psychoanalysis, which had caused much controversy in Zurich at the time. The production was conceived as puppetry, for which avant-garde artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) designed the stage sets and an ensemble of seventeen radically abstracted marionettes. Her designs broke with every tradition of the genre and were influenced by her work in fine and applied art, as well as her experience with expressive dance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first English translation of Morax and Wolff's adaption of \u003ci\u003eKing Stag\u003c\/i\u003e. The text is supplemented with photographs of Taeuber-Arp's iconic marionettes. Essays by distinguished scholars explore the genesis of the original 1918 production and place it in historical context, shed new light on the play, and highlight its significance for Switzerland's avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuseum für Gestaltung Zürich\u003c\/b\u003e is Switzerland's leading museum of design and visual communication, where\u003cb\u003e Sabine Flaschberger\u003c\/b\u003e is curator of the decorative arts collection and \u003cb\u003ePetra Schmid\u003c\/b\u003e is head of publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scheidegger and Spiess","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196525801746,"sku":"9783039422746","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8906e200-e11b-45c3-a916-a5f0fa91aaf5.jpg?v=1776152034","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/king-stag-carlo-gozzis-tragicomedy-in-a-staging-for-marionettes-by-sophie-taeuber-arp-renzs-morax-and-werner-wolff-9783039422746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}