Author: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA / GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS, PARIS
Title: The great parade : portrait of the artist as clown / edited by Jean Clair ; exhibition organized by Pierre Theberge ; [translators, Marcia Couelle ... et al.]
Description: New Haven : Yale University Press ; Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada 2004. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 423 pages; Description: 423 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris. France from March 12 to May 31. and National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa. from June 25 to Sept. 19. 2004. Issued also in French under title: La grande parade. Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-412) and index. Subjects: Clowns in art --Circus in art --Artists and models in art --Exhibitions --Clowns dans l'art --Cirque dans l'Art --Artistes et modeles dans l'art --Expositions. Summary: A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuriesThe 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 ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau. This enchanting book is the catalogue for an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada. which opened at the Grand Palais in Paris on March 9. 2004. and moves to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from June 25 to September 19. 2004.Weight in Kg appr.:

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