Images from the world between
Subtitle: the circus in 20th century American art
By: by Donna Gustafson ; with essays by Eugene Gaddis ... [et al.].
Contributors: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.; Austin Museum of Art.
Publisher: MIT Press; American Federation of Arts
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780262072281; 9781885444226
Subjects: Circus in art -- Exhibitions; Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held Oct. 19, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Feb. 1-Apr. 14, 2002 at John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla., and June 7-Aug. 19, 2002 at Austin Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Images from the world between : the circus in twentieth-century American art / Donna Gustafson; title: Photographing 'The splendidest sight that ever was' : cruelty, alienation, and the grotesque in the shadow of the big top / Ellen Handy; title: Clowns with bad attitudes : popular culture goes to the circus / Karal Ann Marling; title: Chick Austin : the ringmaster at the museum / Eugene R. Gaddis; title: Point/counterpoint : the circus in art, the circus in life / Lee Siegel.