02759oam 2200541zu 450 991096470510332120240402011223.00-8166-8587-8(CKB)2550000001168204(SSID)ssj0001061003(PQKBManifestationID)11616666(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061003(PQKBWorkID)11098233(PQKB)10773615(MiAaPQ)EBC1575267(EXLCZ)99255000000116820420160829d2013 uy engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe freak-garde : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America1st ed.[Place of publication not identified]University of Minnesota Press20131 online resource (321 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8166-7817-0 1-306-18216-6 Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde -- 1 A Curious Education: Mark Twain's Corporate Persons -- 2 Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation -- 3 Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes's Freak Dandies -- 4 Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West's Human Machines -- 5 The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane Arbus -- Coda. Barnum &amp -- Bailey &amp -- Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P. T. Barnum to Matthew Barney, demonstrating how a form of mass culture entertainment became the basis for a distinctly American avant-garde tradition. Robin Blyn 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.ArtsExperimental methods20th centuryUnited StatesArts, AmericanThemes, motivesFreak showsArt, Architecture & Applied ArtsHILCCFine Arts - GeneralHILCCArtsExperimental methodsArts, AmericanThemes, motives.Freak shows.Art, Architecture & Applied ArtsFine Arts - General700.973Blyn Robin1853963PQKBBOOK9910964705103321The freak-garde : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America4450900UNINA