Circus And The Avant Gardes
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Author |
: Anna-Sophie Jürgens |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000552362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000552365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Circus and the Avant-Gardes by : Anna-Sophie Jürgens
This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history – some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, and the cultural relevance of circus arts. Circus and the Avant-Gardes elucidates how the realm of the circus as a model, or rather a blueprint for modernist experiment, innovation and (re)negotiation of bodies, has become fully integrated in our ways of perceiving avant-gardes today. The book does not only map the significance of circus/avant-garde phenomena for the past, but, through an exploration of their contemporary actualisations (in different media), also carves out their achievements, relevance, and impact, both cultural and aesthetic, on the present time.
Author |
: Richard Thomson |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2017-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588396150 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588396150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seurat's Circus Sideshow by : Richard Thomson
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) created just six major figure paintings during his lifetime, one of which, the alluring Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), has remained the most challenging to interpret since it first intrigued viewers at the 1888 Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Unlike Seurat’s earlier sunlit scenes, Circus Sideshow presents a nighttime tableau depicting a parade—a street show enticing passersby to purchase tickets. With its geometrically precise composition, muted colors, and elements of abstraction, the painting stands apart as a masterpiece of Neo-Impressionism and heralds Seurat’s subsequent depictions of popular entertainments. This book, the first comprehensive study of Circus Sideshow, situates the painting in the context of nineteenth-century Paris and of the many social changes France was undergoing. Renowned art historian Richard Thomson illuminates the roles of caricature, naturalist and avant-garde painting, and circus advertising; examines Seurat’s use of contemporary aesthetic theory; and discusses how artists ranging from Rouault to Picasso mined the sideshow theme into the twentieth century. Illustrated with Seurat’s related drawings, works by other artists, and period posters and broadsides, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow delves into the history of traveling circuses and seasonal fairs in France, exploring the ongoing appeal of this traditional form of popular entertainment through the fin de siècle. Two additional essays describe the painting’s enthusiastic reception in New York upon its 1929 debut and present the results of a fresh technical examination of the canvas, making this volume the definitive resource on one of Seurat’s most captivating works.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:402091839 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis "It was the Circus, and I was the Clown": Emma Goldman, Popular and Avant-garde Cultures of American Modernity, and the Politics of (self) Performance by :
Author |
: Samuil Marshak |
Publisher |
: Tate |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1849761027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781849761024 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Circus and Other Stories by : Samuil Marshak
Collects four stories, including "The Circus," in which rhyming text describes different circus performances.
Author |
: Robert Alston Jones |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000903734 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art and Entertainment by : Robert Alston Jones
Author |
: Maki Sasaki |
Publisher |
: Breakdown Press Limited |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0957438125 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780957438125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ding Dong Circus and Other Stories, 1967-1974 by : Maki Sasaki
Ding Dong Circus collects the best of Sasaki Maki's work from alt-manga super magazine Garo. Drawn between 1967 and 1974, the fifteen stories within follow Sasaki's unprecedented exploration of collage methods in comics storytelling. Weaving through references to the Beatles, the Vietnam War, and Andy Warhol, Ding Dong Circus demonstrates that Sasaki was not only a manga pioneer, but also an essential figure in Japanese Pop Art and the critical avant-garde art scene of the 1960s.
Author |
: James M. Harding |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2015-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472036103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472036106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) by : James M. Harding
Pronouncements such as “the avant-garde is dead,” argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest “avant-garde pluralities” and how an appreciation of these pluralities enables a more dynamic and increasingly global understanding of vanguardism in the performing arts. In pursuing this goal, the book not only surveys a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical examples of avant-garde performance, but also develops a range of theoretical paradigms that defend the haunting cultural and political significance of avant-garde expressions beyond what critics have presumed to be the death of the avant-garde. The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective not only on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies but also on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy.
Author |
: Eric B White |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2013-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748645220 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748645225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transatlantic Avant-Gardes by : Eric B White
Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlanticTransatlantic Avant-Gardes offers a revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism. Complimenting recent studies of modernist expatriates, Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place 'located' figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. Focusing on artist-run 'little magazines' (including Others, Contact, The Little Review, Blast, The Dial, Fire!!, and Pagany) and selected fine press publications and mainstream periodicals, White also reconsiders the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'regionalist' and 'cosmopolitan', factions. Thus, the book proposes a version of localist modernism that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' to deliver a 'networked' approach to American modernism in the transatlantic context. Combining literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes provides a new reading of the specialised literary networks that interrogated the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identity in the modernist transatlantic.
Author |
: Graham M. Jones |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2017-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226518718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022651871X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magic's Reason by : Graham M. Jones
In Magic’s Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers, who, in their view, hoodwinked gullible people into believing their sleight of hand was divine. Using French magicians’ engagements with North African ritual performers as a case study, Jones shows how magic became enshrined in anthropological reasoning. Acknowledging the residue of magic’s colonial origins doesn’t require us to dispense with it. Rather, through this radical reassessment of classic anthropological ideas, Magic’s Reason develops a new perspective on the promise and peril of cross-cultural comparison.
Author |
: Sotheby |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:721111315 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Continental illustrated Books, including Russian avant-garde books; English illustrated and private press books; an important circus collection; children's book and juvenilia including The Hannas Collection, related drawings by : Sotheby