The Great Parade; Portrait of the Artist as Clown

by Edited by Gérard (Jean) Régnier (Clair)

• ISBN13: 9780300103755
• ISBN10: 0300103751
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-07-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist.The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Leger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's balletParade tomore intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.

Author Biography

Gerard Regnier (Jean Clair), Director of the Musee Picasso, Paris, is the general editor of the catalogue.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the exhibition	p. 10
Foreword	p. 12
Acknowledgements	p. 14
The grimacing double	p. 16
Parade and palingenesis : of the circus in the work of Picasso and others	p. 21
The circus of cruelty : a portrait of the contemporary clown as Sisyphus	p. 35
The waking dream : photography and the circus	p. 47
Hysterical clowns, ridiculous martyrs : the writer's view	p. 57
Catalogue	p. 66
Chronology	p. 348
Bibliography	p. 391
List of works	p. 413
Index	p. 421
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