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Circus Americanus

By Ralph Rugoff

By Ralph Rugoff

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Category: Art

Paperback $29.95

Nov 17, 1995 | ISBN 9781859840030

Circus Americanus by Ralph Rugoff
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Nov 17, 1995 | ISBN 9781859840030

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About Circus Americanus

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.

Product Details

Category: Art

Paperback | $29.95
Published by Verso
Nov 17, 1995 | 216 Pages | 7-9/10 x 8-7/10 | ISBN 9781859840030

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Praise

“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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