The Freak-garde: Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America
Author:   Robin Blyn
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816678174


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   18 November 2013
Format:   Paperback
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The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P. T.Barnum to Matthew Barney, demonstrating how a form of mass cultureentertainment became the basis for a distinctly American avant-garde tradition.Robin Blyn establishes innovative approaches to American avant-garde practicesand embodiment and lays the foundation for a more nuanced understanding of thedisruptive potential of art under capitalism.

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Author:   Robin Blyn
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780816678174


ISBN 10:   0816678170
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   18 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde1. A Curious Education: Mark Twain’s Corporate Persons2. Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation3. Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes’s Freak Dandies4. Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West’s Human Machines5. The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane ArbusCoda. Barnum & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim NotesBibliographyIndex

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Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney. This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show. -Rachel Adams, Columbia University


Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney. This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show. --Rachel Adams, Columbia University


""Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney.  This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show."" —Rachel Adams, Columbia University


""Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney.  This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show."" -Rachel Adams, Columbia University


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Robin Blyn is associate professor of English at the University of West Florida.

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