850円 Desde o circo itinerante, montado sob lonas e que passava de geração em geração, muitas mudanças ocorreram, com uma tensão positiva entre a tradição e a inovação. Este livro busca, por meio de ensaios e reflexões, contribuir para a valorização do gênero, bem como de suas formas de expressão conte...

9,616円 This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a col...

2,150円 Since the foundation of the 'modern' circus in the eighteenth century, the circus has been presented in defined spaces. Initially, performances were given in the open air and, over a period of time, these spaces first became enclosed and then later roofed. Temporary wooden structures often became...

2,791円 Ilman turvaverkkoa. Kiehtova tarina sirkuselämästä, hurjista tempuista ja kiertävän taiteilijan uskomattomasta arjesta. Miltä maailma näyttää, kun esiintyy kymmenen metrin korkeudessa pää alaspäin roikkuen – ja ilman turvaköyttä? Sirkustaiteilija Salima Peippo kiersi Euroopan sirkuksia lähes kaks...

451円 OF course, you’ve been to the circus. You got there just in time to hear the sideshow spieler tell you that there was fortay-y-y-y-y-five minutes for fun an’ amusement beforah th’ beeg show, th’ beeg show, would begin! Fortay-y-y-y-five minutes in which to view those stra-a-a-nge people, to see T...

1,921円 This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of ...

1,377円 The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world’s largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before be...

1,760円 "A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution" ( The Circus Diaries). Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the "modern" tented travelling sho...

1,599円 A graphic biography of the real-life sideshow performer who inspired Zippy the Pinhead: "An uplifting, wonderfully humane book." ー The New York Times From Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small-town carnivals and big-city sideshows, Nobody's Fool follows the long, legendary career o...

950円 Um bom lugar para começar é olhar para todo o processo e me localizar hoje é criar uma linha temporal que envolva uma trajetória de produção que muitas vezes passa despercebida. É só nesse momento, nesse exato momento, que decidi reconhecer meu corpo ampliado que ocupou muitos lugares de produção...

703円 The comprehensive new guide to street performers of all kinds: musicians, artists, jugglers, fire dancers, puppeteers, acrobats and any theater or circus act in the public sphere.Your ticket to the enthralling world of street performance, also known as busking. Packed with insights and inspiratio...

1,300円 Sette storie che, muovendosi liberamente tra la pista, il territorio circense per eccellenza, e i più disparati ambiti culturali e sociali tra la fine dell'Ottocento e la nostra contemporaneità, si distaccano dalla saggistica convenzionale per esplorare percorsi laterali, finora poco battuti e sp...