Circus Americanus
Seiten
1995
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-003-0 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-003-0 (ISBN)
Takes readers on a guided tour of some of the world's leading museums and some of the most unusual. Making unexpected connections and juxtapositions, this book allows readers to perceive and enjoy the beautiful, the bizarre and the downright perverse in places we never thought of looking before.
Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America's changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff takes us on a tour of theme park slums and mystical police cars, futurist war and the "aesthetics of safe chaos." With an idiosyncratic eye for detail, he maps a culture in which "reality" has become just another theme, revealing an America much stranger than the glamorous kitsch of its surfaces. Whether he is writing about Las Vegas casinos, forensic cartoons, the enigma of Napoleon's preserved penis or the aesthetics of sewage treatment, Rugoff considers everyday marvels with a concern for how we live together in a world beyond belief.
Circus Americanus is a riotous excursion through America's changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff takes us on a tour of theme park slums and mystical police cars, futurist war and the "aesthetics of safe chaos." With an idiosyncratic eye for detail, he maps a culture in which "reality" has become just another theme, revealing an America much stranger than the glamorous kitsch of its surfaces. Whether he is writing about Las Vegas casinos, forensic cartoons, the enigma of Napoleon's preserved penis or the aesthetics of sewage treatment, Rugoff considers everyday marvels with a concern for how we live together in a world beyond belief.
Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery and was previously a Los Angeles art critic covering visual culture for LA Weekly.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.11.1995 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Haymarket |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 201 x 221 mm |
| Gewicht | 579 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-85984-003-5 / 1859840035 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-85984-003-0 / 9781859840030 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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