Circus Americanus - Haymarket

4.36 ( 22 Ratings by Goodreads)
Circus Americanus

Circus Americanus - Haymarket

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4.36 (22 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 17 November, 1995
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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9781859840030
ISBN10 1859840035
Number Of Pages 220
Item Weight 579 g
Product Dimensions 201 x 221 x 13 mm
Publisher / Reseller Verso Books
Format paperback
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Ralph Rugoff delights his readers with his customarily dizzying range and perennially deft sensibility but also with something more unusual, a real sense of discretion. -- Lawrence Weschler, New Yorker staff writer
As millenarian Western time loops, Ralph Rugoff presents a carnival of New World wonders: yesterday and tomorrow today. -- Jon Savage, author of England‘s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock and Beyond
Ralph Rugoff gives us the critic as expert tracker, with brilliant flair for the vivid scene. By turns funny and alarming, affectionate and macabre, his writing is filled with thoughtful asides on the way we live now. -- Marina Warner, author of From the Beast to the Blonde and Managing Monsters

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Author's Bio

Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery and was previously a Los Angeles art critic covering visual culture for LA Weekly.

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