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The circus : a visual history
- Title
- The circus : a visual history / Pascal Jacob ; preface by Marius Kwint ; translated from the French by Augusta Dörr.
- Author
- Jacob, Pascal
- Publication
- London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018.
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm
- Summary
- Using over 200 circus related artworks from the French National Library's private collections, celebrated cultural historian Pascal Jacob tells the story of travelling entertainers and their art and trade. From nomadic animal tamers of the Dark Ages to European jugglers and acrobats of the 1800s, from the use of the circus as Soviet propaganda to the 20th-century Chinese performance art renaissance, this is an exhaustive history with a uniquely international scope.0Jacob draws on both rare and famous artworks, including prints dating from the 13th century, and paintings by Picasso and Dore. In doing so he demonstrates the circus to be a visual and physical masterpiece, constantly moving and evolving, and just as exciting an experience for audiences now as it was 1,000 years ago.
- Uniform Title
- Histoire du cirque. English
- Alternative Title
- Histoire du cirque.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Note
- "First published in France under the title Une Histoire du Cirque by Pascal Jacob, 2016 Éditions du Seuil."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- ISBN
- 9781350043107
- 1350043109
- LCCN
- 2017046928
- OCLC
- on1005201791
- SCSB-9122167
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library