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Title:

The Amazing American circus poster : the Strobridge Lithographing Company / edited by Kristin L. Spangenberg and Deborah W. Walk ; with essays by David Carlyon ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Cincinnati Art Museum ;

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

264 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Circus posters--United States--Exhibitions.
Strobridge Lithographing Company--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Spangenberg, Kristin L., editor of compilation. editor of compilation.
Walk, Deborah W., editor of compilation. editor of compilation.
Carlyon, David, author.
Cincinnati Art Museum, issuing body. issuing body.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, issuing body. issuing body.

Notes:

"The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company is published to accompany the exhibition "The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company," held at the Cincinnati Art Museum from February 26 to July 10, 2011, and The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art from September 17, 2011, to January 29, 2012." Four folded plates in pocket. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The steamboat, the circus, and Cincinnati / Stuart L. Thayer -- The gilded legacy of the circus kings / Deborah W. Walk -- The Strobridge Lithographing Company : the Tiffany of printers / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- A picture is worth 757 words : circus & culture, language & perception / David Carlyon -- The Strobridge Lithographing Company, the Ringling Brothers, and their circuses / Fred D. Pfening III -- After the posters, the daily free street parade / Fred Dahlinger Jr. -- Promoting peerless prodigies "to the curious" / Richard W. Flint -- The menagerie / Richard J. Reynolds III -- The circus clown as social commentator / Rodney A. Huey -- Magnificent entr©♭es : the role of the spectacle during the golden age of the circus / Jennifer Lemmer Posey -- Bearded ladies, dainty Amazons, hindoo fakirs, and lady savages : circus representations of gender and race in Victorian America / Janet M. Davis -- Strobridge pictorial posters : design, printing, and posting / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Catalogue -- Strobridge Lithographing Company artists / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Timeline : Strobridge and the circus in America -- Strobridge circus clients / Kristin L. Spangenberg -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of names and titles.

ISBN:

093153738X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780931537387 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)694172206

LCCN:

2010053584

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)