Freaks, Geeks, And Strange Girls : Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway

Author(s): Johnson, Randy; Meah, Johnny; Secreto, Jim; Varndall Teddy

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	1st Thus
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Last Gasp Publications
Publication Year:	2004
Publication Place:	USA
ISBN:	9780867196221
Book ID:	004228
Catalogue(s):	Culture and Society ◇ Art

170pp, profusely illustrated in full colour throughout. Self-folding, laminated stiff card covers (very slight rubbed at edges, small scuff at base of spine, short flat crease). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. America is the land of advertising and what more blatant, pure and honest example of these beautiful paintings, luring the innocent into the world of dreams and nightmares, by parting with there money. There is not one politically correct thing about this book - it lays the lies and beauty of advertising bare. By looking at freaks, it looks inside ourselves. From contortionsists to clowns, from fat man to six legged-sheet, from mystic readers to fortune tellers, they are all on show. Oblong 8vo.

Keywords:

advertising marketing freaks sideshow banners commercial art popular art circus clowns side show