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The freak-garde : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America /
"Since the 1890s, American artists have employed the arts of the freak show to envision radically different ways of being. The result is a rich avant-garde tradition that critiques and challenges capitalism from within. The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P.T. Barnum to Matth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde; 1 A Curious Education: Mark Twain's Corporate Persons; 2 Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation; 3 Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes's Freak Dandies; 4 Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West's Human Machines; 5 The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane Arbus; Coda. Barnum & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.