How did early modern literature conceive the future? Scholarship of early modern literature has paid ample attention to the many ways in which time was perceived and understood, frequently emphasizing retrospective forms of historical thinking, such as memory and nostalgia. The masks have a similar range: they come from Africa, Ceylon, Europe, Japan, Java, Mexico, North America, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Most were collected by the 1930s many date from the nineteenth century. There are 40 large (over five feet tall) shadow puppets and approximately 350 other puppets, including six oversize marionettes made by the prominent artist Remo Bufano. The puppets come from around the world: Africa, Burma, China, England, France, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Russia, and the U.S. The puppets and masks have all been photographed, and these images are presented here. Dramatic Museum Realia consists of puppets, masks, theater models and stage sets. By the 1990s, the collections had all gravitated to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML).Now, thanks to a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, RBML is creating a new collection and finding aid. The Museum was formally dissolved and its collections dispersed in 1971. So in addition to considerable manuscript collections and a large collection of printed books, the Dramatic Museum included 34,500 theatrical portraits (prints and photographs) 2,350 speech recordings 35,000 eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century playbills approximately 600 artworks, including costume and scenic designs and posters 392 puppets and 128 masks 12 models of historical theaters and 29 stage sets. The differences in national style visible on the contemporary stage had their origins, he argued, in ancient local rituals and religious practice. He insisted that material objects and images were crucial to understanding drama, and that theater knew no geographical or chronological bounds. James Brander Matthews (1852-1929), America's first professor of dramatic literature, created a Dramatic Museum at Columbia in 1911 to supplement his teaching.
To learn more about Art Properties and its services, go to the department’s webpage. To view thousands of records of information about artwork in Columbia’s permanent collection, consult CLIO, the Columbia University Libraries catalogue. This collection will grow over time as more high-resolution digital imaging takes place. Highlights include: portrait paintings and modern art daguerreotypes and other historic and modern examples of photography drawings, watercolors, and prints by artists worldwide historic Buddhist art from India, China, Tibet, and Japan, and numerous other examples of fine and decorative art from Asia and archaeological artifacts from the Ancient Near East, the Aegean world, and ancient Rome and Etruria. This curated digital project of over 500 works from the collection provides just a glimpse at the vast holdings in the University art collection. Comprised of more than 13,000 works of art in all media, across multiple time periods and cultures worldwide, the collection is available for research and study, curricular use, and educational programs, and may be requested as external loans for special exhibitions. We endeavored to identify these in the descriptions of individual decks, but we welcome feedback at Properties, based in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, oversees Columbia University's art collection. These decks include historical representations of various cultural and ethnic groups in racist, sexist, or other ways that may be offensive or harmful. Decks (in their entirety or just the most interesting parts) were mounted onto 16" x 20" sheets of black paper, generally four suits across including, if useful, samples of the backs, and/or pip cards, any instructions included with the deck and noting interesting aspects such as makers' marks and tax stamps with yellow dots. Cards digitized in 2018 represent most of the pre-1801 cards, as mounted by scholar-collector Albert Field (1916-2003 CC '38). Holdings are especially strong from early modern England, revolutionary France, the early American Republic, across a broad range of nineteenth-century national styles, and especially in transformation cards.
The decks, ranging from the 16th through the 20th centuries, and across the world, are a rich vein of primary source material in popular imagery, costume, advertising, propaganda, as well as elite culture.
The Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards contains more than 6300 individual decks of playing cards as well as extensive ephemera and a library of reference books.
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