Wydzial Lalkarski (Puppetry)

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.176

Description

This is a poster for a theater show. It shows animals and puppets in a frame around the perimeter. In the center several figures on the stomach of a very large figural toy.

Artwork Details

Medium

Offset lithograph

Context

This poster does not seem to advertise any specific performance but rather for a university’s puppetry department. The poster is for the Puppetry Department at Stanisław Wyspiański Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul University, gift of Patricia Rosenberg

Made/Created

Artist

Jan Jaromir Aleksiun

Date made

1987

Ethnography

Notes

Polish Europe, Poland Europe Poland

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

Center

Transcription

Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Teatralna im. L. Solskiego w Krakowie

Language

Polish

Translation

Stanisław Wyspiański Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków

Type

Inscription

Location

Center

Transcription

Wydizial Lalkarski The State Puppetry Institute WROCLAW-POLAND

Language

English

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

posters, information artifacts, information forms (objects), theater arts, performing arts (discipline), arts (broad discipline), humanities, disciplines (concept)

Hierarchy Name

Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Disciplines (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet, Activities Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Theater posters

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26-3/4 in

Length

37-1/4 in