The great parade : portrait of the artist as clown / Edited by Jean Clair
Material type: TextPublication details: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada , 2004Description: 423 p. : illus. ; , 32 cmISBN:- 9780300103755
- Toller Cranston Collection
- REF 704.949 CLA
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | Consulta / Referencia | REF 704.949 CLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 013372 |
The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Leger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time rangiing from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.
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