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Author | : Michael Snarr |
Publisher | : Gatekeeper Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1662907729 |
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The author didn’t know what awaited him when he joined a college fraternity in the fall of 1965. He didn’t know one of his brothers was plotting the greatest sneak in fraternity history. He didn’t know about the Mudigas, or Peaches, or the famous party called The Bowery. Or a thousand other crazy goings-on. Nor did his frat brothers know, or think, he would ever write about it…
Author | : Peta Tait |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2005-11-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134331215 |
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Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Wolcott |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0767930622 |
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From one of our most admired (and feared) cultural critics, a memoir that captures all the gritty, grubby glamour of New York in the awful/wonderful Seventies. In the autumn of 1972, a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style. This portrait of a critic as a young man is also a rollicking, acutely observant portrait of a legendary time and place. Mixing grit and glitter in just the right proportions, suffused with affection for the talented and sometimes half-crazed denizens of the scene, it will make readers long for a time when you really could get mugged around here.
Author | : Iowa Geological Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Botany |
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Author | : Peta Tait |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000156052 |
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The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is organised into three accessible sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach historical aspects, current issues, and the future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped together into 13 theme-based sub-sections, provide a clear entry point into the field and emphasise the diversity of approaches available to students and scholars of circus studies. Classic accounts of performance, including pieces by Philippe Petit and Friedrich Nietzsche, are included alongside more recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars whose work is strongly connected to the dynamic world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential teaching and study resource for the emerging discipline of circus studies. It also provides a stimulating introduction to the field for lovers of circus.
Author | : Pierre Théberge |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300103751 |
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A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.
Author | : Robert Bogdan |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 022622743X |
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This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Author | : Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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Author | : Susan Nance |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421408732 |
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How the lives and labors of nineteenth-century circus elephants shaped the entertainment industry. Consider the career of an enduring if controversial icon of American entertainment: the genial circus elephant. In Entertaining Elephants Susan Nance examines elephant behavior—drawing on the scientific literature of animal cognition, learning, and communications—to offer a study of elephants as actors (rather than objects) in American circus entertainment between 1800 and 1940. By developing a deeper understanding of animal behavior, Nance asserts, we can more fully explain the common history of all species. Entertaining Elephants is the first account that uses research on animal welfare, health, and cognition to interpret the historical record, examining how both circus people and elephants struggled behind the scenes to meet the profit necessities of the entertainment business. The book does not claim that elephants understood, endorsed, or resisted the world of show business as a human cultural or business practice, but it does speak of elephants rejecting the conditions of their experience. They lived in a kind of parallel reality in the circus, one that was defined by their interactions with people, other elephants, horses, bull hooks, hay, and the weather. Nance’s study informs and complicates contemporary debates over human interactions with animals in entertainment and beyond, questioning the idea of human control over animals and people's claims to speak for them. As sentient beings, these elephants exercised agency, but they had no way of understanding the human cultures that created their captivity, and they obviously had no claim on (human) social and political power. They often lived lives of apparent desperation.