The freak-garde : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America / Robin Blyn.
"Since the 1890s, American artists have employed the arts of the freak show to envision radically different ways of being. The result is a rich avant-garde tradition that critiques and challenges capitalism from within. The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P.T. Barnum to Matth...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Unbecoming subjects : freak shows and the American avant-garde
- A curious education : Mark Twain's corporate persons
- Between silence and sound : the Lon Chaney sensation
- Decadence in the age of fascism : Djuna Barnes's freak dandies
- Dada in Hollywood : Nathanael West's human machines
- The biology of revolution : mapping mutation with Diane Arbus
- Barnum & Bailey & Barney : freak show at the Guggenheim.