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Descripción - Críticas 'Our fascination with the fantastic--people and animals doing things most of us simply cannot do--is apparently as old as humankind. Simon offers ancient historical evidence, some from thousands of years before the Common Era, of incredible performers, from dancing Egyptian girls to ceramic Mexican acrobats to depictions of ancient Japanese tumblers. Through an engaging narrative and impressive photos, posters, and famous paintings by Lautrec, Degas, and others, Simon conjures the long and captivating history of the circus. . . . A sweeping look at the ancient fascination with spectacle and how it has evolved over time.'--Booklist 'A jewel of a publication. . . . Simon writes about the various phases of circus history in a dense, rich prose--enlivened by some superb chapter-headings, quotes, and anecdotes. Here is an eclectic and well-chosen compilation of responses to, and illustrations of, the circus. . . . I enjoyed this book greatly. Linda Simon is clever and a thorough researcher. . . . she writes with a sharp eye for detail and page-turning momentum.' --Spectator 'Engrossing. . . . It takes a book such as Simon's vividly written and richly illustrated one to give us some inkling of what Emily Dickinson felt when she wrote 'Friday I tasted life. It was a vast morsel. A Circus passed the house--still I feel the red in my mind.'' --Sunday Times 'Handsomely presented on superior paper and with many illustrations, over half of them in colour. . . . [the book] ranges widely in time and place and evokes its subject with great immediacy. . . . A whirl of chapters on trick-riders, trapeze artists, animals, prodigies, and so forth, sweeps the reader into the atmosphere of the circus. . . . Simon enlivens history with roughly equal helpings of anecdote and philosophical enquiry.' --Times Literary Supplement 'Like anyone with a hankering for fairs, puppets, and music halls, I adored the world of the circus--and as [this] beautifully illustrated and superbly researched volume makes plain, it is a form of entertainment that has accumulated distinguished devotees.' --Daily Mail 'A whimsical and enlightening history of the circus. . . . Simon does a fine job of exploring the subtexts of the circus. In addition to what is promised--'a living cabinet of wonders, a theatre of the improbable, and even the impossible, an escape from reality'--the circus has always appealed to our baser instincts. . . . Above all, Simon shows how men and women over the centuries have been obsessed with controlling their bodies and, by extension, their minds--and how the spotlight and the 'irresistible burst of applause' were often fatally addictive.' --Macleans Magazine 'Simon has achieved a great deal in this book. Often relating circuses to the ways they have been represented in art, she offers detailed descriptions of the basic elements of circus acts. After a fine introduction covering circus history, she devotes chapters to the elements that make up circus performance. . . . This beautifully produced book--with its excellent color reproductions, extensive notes, and useful bibliography--is a must for those interested in popular culture. . . . Essential.' --Choice 'In the age of CGI and editing, the 'fleeting moment of magical spectacle' that the circus represents holds a grip on our popular imagination about as firm as an aerialist's on the trapeze. It's an obsession that is intriguingly documented in Simon's The Greatest Show on Earth . . . its great strength is providing both a strong practical narrative and a considerably interwoven portrait of the related thoughts of artists and writers (and later filmmakers) from the earliest stages of the circus's existence, given, in many cases, the very specific inspiration that the circus provided them.' --Daily Beast 'Throughout, Simon demonstrates her understanding that circuses are mystical and complex, full of dazzle and escapism, both social and sexual. . . . Simon brings a learned hand to this bright history of the circus, which emblazons as it preserves the magic.' --Kirkus Reviews Reseña del editor Dazzling, clamorous and exotic, the circus is a theatre of the improbable and impossible. From the days of travelling troupes of acrobats and jugglers to the grand spectacle of the Cirque du Soleil, the circus has exerted an indelible fascination. Of all our myths of reinvention, rebirth, second acts and new identities, running away to join the circus has a special allure. In this book Linda Simon asks why we long to soar on the flying trapeze; to ride bareback on a spangled horse; to parade through city streets in costumes of glitter and gold. Why have artists and writers repeatedly or obsessively taken the circus as their subject? What does the circus offer us that we think we so desperately need? The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns. We meet P. T. Barnum, James Bailey and the enterprising Ringling Brothers, who created the golden age of American circuses. We explore contemporary transformations of the circus, from the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia to New York City's Big Apple Circus.Circus people are central to the story: trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns - these are the men and women who create the sensational, raucous, titillating and incomparable world of the circus. Beautifully illustrated, rich in historical detail and full of colourful anecdotes, Linda Simon's vibrant history is as enchanting as a night at the big-top itself. Biografía del autor Linda Simon is Professor of Emerita of English at Skidmore College, New York. Her previous publications include Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-ray (2004) and Coco Chanel (2011), a title in Reaktion's Critical Lives series.
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- Name: Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus
- Autor: Linda Simon
- Categoria: Libros,Arte, cine y fotografía,Artes escénicas
- Tamaño del archivo: 14 MB
- Tipos de archivo: PDF Document
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- Idioma: Español
- Archivos de estado: AVAILABLE
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