| Description |
184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Catalog of the exhibition held Oct. 19, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Feb. 1-Apr. 14, 2002 at John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla., and June 7-Aug. 19, 2002 at Austin Museum of Art. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index. |
| Contents |
Images from the world between : the circus in twentieth-century American art / Donna Gustafson -- Photographing 'The splendidest sight that ever was' : cruelty, alienation, and the grotesque in the shadow of the big top / Ellen Handy -- Clowns with bad attitudes : popular culture goes to the circus / Karal Ann Marling -- Chick Austin : the ringmaster at the museum / Eugene R. Gaddis -- Point/counterpoint : the circus in art, the circus in life / Lee Siegel. |
| Subject |
Circus in art -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
American Federation of Arts.
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
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John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
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Austin Museum of Art.
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| ISBN |
0262072289 hardcover |
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1885444222 paperback |
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