The Freak-garde : Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America /

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"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...

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Autor principal: Blyn, Robin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Freak shows.
Arts > Experimental methods.
Arts, American > Themes, motives.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
HISTORY > United States > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
ART > History > General.
Exhibitions de monstres.
Arts americains > 20e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Arts > États-Unis > Methodes experimentales.
Arts, American > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Arts > United States > Experimental methods.
United States.
Electronic books.
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.

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