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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300103751

ISBN-139780300103755

eBay Product ID (ePID)30528055

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreat Parade : Portrait of the Artist As Clown

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicGeneral, Subjects & Themes / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Performing Arts

AuthorGerard (Jean) Regnier (Clair)

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight90.9 Oz

Item Length1.3 in

Item Width1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-401346

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Given the melancholy and ennui so artfully and wistfully manifest in The Great Parade 'enjoy' may not be the right word. 'Experience' is more accurate. But what an experience!"-Heather Harrington, The Canada Post, "Given the melancholy and ennui so artfully and wistfully manifest in The Great Parade 'enjoy' may not be the right word. 'Experience' is more accurate. But what an experience!"--Heather Harrington, The Canada Post

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal704.9/497913

SynopsisA beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and L ger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau., A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.

LC Classification NumberN8217.C3