0 the skill or activity of making puppets or entertaining people with puppets (= toys in the shape of people or animals, moved with strings or by someone's hand inside): --
traditional puppetry and mask-making
I used the word "puppetry".
The inquiry is not bound to any precise definition of "the arts", and regards them as drama, films, puppetry, music, mime, drawing, painting, photography and literature.
I can think of a hundred things it would be better spent on than this puppetry.
This is not simply a matter of puppetry being turned into a commercial art, but of something inherently spiritual suffering a sea change.
Puppetry had flourished when the craftsman remained an important part of the village community.
Decreasing demand for string puppetry means that kathputli performers have to go further afield in search of paying audiences.
However, this in no way casts a shadow over the true value of string puppetry.
The truth is that ritual is not an optional preface to, but an inextricable part of, the entire art of puppetry, which is fundamentally holistic.
