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Images from the world between : the circus in 20th century American art / by Donna Gustafson ; with essays by Eugene R. Gaddis ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT ; New York : American Federation of Arts, [2007].Description: 184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780262572415
  • 0262572419
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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.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.949791 GUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 01009

Catalogue 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index.

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.