The freak-garde [electronic resource] : extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America / Robin Blyn.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780816685875
- 0816685878
- 700.973 23
- NX504 .B59 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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 & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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