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Circus and the avant-gardes : history, imaginary, innovation / edited by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
- Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circus--History--20th century.
- Circus.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Arts for all senses : circus and the avant-gardes : introduction / Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand
- A treasure trove for avant-garde artists? : metropolitan circus performances around 1900 / Mirjam Hildbrand
- Circus, Dada, Vaudeville : historical avant-garde : between popular and experimental theatre / Martina Gross
- 'Attractive novelties' : spectacular innovation and the making of a new kind of audience within colonial modernity / Martyn Jolly
- Typocircus and the Czech avant-gardes / Anne Hultsch
- The present as a trick or the assault on the spectator's psyche : circus and the Soviet avant-garde / Oksana Bulgakowa
- 'Like a three-ring circus' : the avant-garde appropriates the circus in the battle between distraction and attractions / Tom Gunning
- The animated circus and new arts of motion / Kristian Moen
- 'Glitter and broken bones' : professional wrestling, circus, avant-garde and the radical participatory body / Claire Warden
- Glam clowning : from Dada to Gaga : a conversation with Le Pustra / Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Le Pustra
- The aesthetics of queer work : Loïe Fuller's exhausting life as performance art in Stéphanie Di Giusto's The dancer (2016) / Wesley Lim
- Political clowns, thrilling strong women and animal-free excitement : circus reimagined through 1970s avant-garde political theatre / Jane Mullett and Peta Tait
- Avant-garde gestures and contemporaneity in today's circus / Louis Patrick Leroux
- 'Today for the last time'? : on the cultural meanings of circus and the avant-gardes : some final provocations / Mirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Aiden Essery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Circus and the avant-gardes
- ISBN:
- 9781003163749
- 1003163742
- 9781000552362
- 1000552365
- 9781000552409
- 1000552403
- Publisher Number:
- 40031075471
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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