TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blyn,Robin
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The freak-garde: extraordinary bodies and revolutionary art in America 
SN  - 9780816685875
AV  - NX504 .B59 2013
U1  - 700.973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - ART / History / General
KW  - Freak shows
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Arts
KW  - United States
KW  - Experimental methods
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780816685875/
ER  -