Circus Americanus
by
Ralph Rugoff
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Haymarket
ISBN-10
1859840035
ISBN-13
9781859840030
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 17th, 1995
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
564 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 27.90 x 1.60 cms
Ksh 3,650.00
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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.
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