{"product_id":"circus-and-the-avantgardes-9780367757304","title":"Circus and the AvantGardes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars  from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history  some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArts for all Senses: Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHISTORICAL CIRCUS, POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT AND AVANT-GARDES – INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONS \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Treasure Trove for Avant-garde Artists? Metropolitan Circus Performances around 1900\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMirjam Hildbrand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCircus, Dada, Vaudeville: Historical Avant-Garde – Between Popular and Experimental Theatre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartina Gross\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Attractive Novelties’: Spectacular Innovation and the Making of a New Kind of Audience within Colonial Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartyn Jolly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTAGING CIRCUS OUTSIDE THE RING: AVANT-GARDE EXPERIMENTS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTypocircus and the Czech Avant-Gardes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Hultsch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Present as a Trick or the Assault on the Spectator’s Psyche: Circus and the Soviet Avant-Garde \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOksana Bulgakowa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTAGES OF TECHNOLOGY: CIRCUS, AVANT-GARDES AND (NEW) MEDIA \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Like a Three-ring Circus’: The Avant-garde Appropriates the Circus in the Battle between Distraction and Attractions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Gunning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Animated Circus and New Arts of Motion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristian Moen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 4 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCIRCUS-AVANT-GARDE BODIES: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PHYSICALITIES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Glitter and Broken Bones’: Professional Wrestling, Circus, Avant-Garde and the Radical Participatory Body \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Warden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlam Clowning: From Dada to Gaga – A Conversation with Le Pustra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna-Sophie Jürgens and Le Pustra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Aesthetics of Queer Work: Loïe Fuller’s Exhausting Life as Performance Art in Stéphanie Di Giusto’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e (2016)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWesley Lim\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART 5 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCIRCUS AND AVANT-GARDES REIMAGINED SINCE THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical Clowns, Thrilling Strong Women and Animal-Free Excitement: Circus Reimagined through 1970s Avant-Garde Political Theatre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Mullett and Peta Tait \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvant-Garde Gestures and Contemporaneity in Today’s Circus \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouis Patrick Leroux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Today for the last time’? On the Cultural Meanings of Circus and the Avant-Gardes – Some Final Provocations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMirjam Hildbrand, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Aiden Essery \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018062201175,"sku":"9780367757304","price":37.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367757304.jpg?v=1750775506","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/circus-and-the-avantgardes-9780367757304","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}