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Painter: David Buchen
Categories: Bookwork / Drawn/Painted Books, Unbound Works

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Reference no.:L/Buc.D-Sch.C/06.00 Place/Shelf:4dr4

Book title: 1381
Year made: 2006
Place made: USA
Original: Yes
Dimensions: 900 x 1200
Physical description: 8 painted canvas sheets
Medium: paintings
Collaborations: with musician Chris Schoen
Further information:
This piece is a 'cantastoria'. Cantastoria are performance pieces, a story telling using a books, posters and similar props to aid the telling. Often music was part of the performance. Sometimes the tale was sung rather than spoken. The tradition reaches back to the medieval era and stretched across the world from the Indian subcontinent to Europe.

Painter: David Buchen
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