Circus and the avant-gardes : history, imaginary, innovation / edited by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand.
"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...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2022.
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Table of 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.