Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs.
Language: English
Published by Countryman Press,, Woodstock:, 1998
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
AbeBooks seller since May 1, 1998
Condition: Used - Near fine
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200 black and white photographs by the author. First printing. Previous owner's address label on front paste-down, else fine in an about fine dust jacket.
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- Title
- Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs.
- Author
- FISH, Charles.
- Publisher
- Countryman Press,, Woodstock:
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0881504122
- ISBN 13
- 9780881504125
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- History, Photography
Blue Ribbons and Burlesque presents more than 200 arresting photographs taken nearly 30 years ago and an engaging text that blends memories with information on nearly every aspect of the world of American country fairs.
With the same keen observation and lyrical prose, Charles Fish has turned to the country fairs of his youth. Country fairs still draw crowds, and readers will recognize many of the features so strikingly captured in this book. But times have changed. "Looming larger for the young than they do today," Fish writes, "the fairs as I knew them are emblematic of a passing way of life. They were rich with images and wonders at a time when entertainment was more restrained, the panorama of the wide world less brutally revealed. They presented forms of excellence growing out of our daily life―fine cattle, fast horses, fine machines―but they also offered provocative glimpses of forms of pleasure and the grotesque usually veiled in our little village." While never ceasing to entertain and inform, Blue Ribbons and Burlesque also raises questions about nature and nurture, theatrical illusion, the pursuit of excellence, and the power of novelty and the erotic."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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