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Robin Blyn - The Freak-Garde. Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America.  - 9780816678174 - V9780816678174
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The Freak-Garde. Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America.

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Description for The Freak-Garde. Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America. Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; DSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.

Since the 1890s, American artists have employed the arts of the freak show to envision radically different ways of being. The result is a rich avant-garde tradition that critiques and challenges capitalism from within.

The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P. T. Barnum to Matthew Barney and demonstrates how a form of mass culture entertainment became the basis for a distinctly American avant-garde tradition. Exploring a wide range of writers, filmmakers, photographers, and artists who have appropriated the arts of the freak show, Robin Blyn exposes the disturbing power of human curiosities and the desires they ... Read more

Defying conventional wisdom, The Freak-garde ultimately argues that postmodernism is not the death of the avant-garde but the inheritor of a vital and generative legacy. In doing so, the book establishes innovative approaches to American avant-garde practices and embodiment and lays the foundation for a more nuanced understanding of the disruptive potential of art under capitalism.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816678174
SKU
V9780816678174
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99-15

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

Reviews for The Freak-Garde. Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America.
"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

Goodreads reviews for The Freak-Garde. Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America.


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