Sujets :
Arts du cirque - Inde
Chapiteau - Histoire

Résumé :
The itinerant character of the circus is best exemplified by tents. All life and work in the circus happens in and around various tents. The disasters related to circus also inevitably bring in the imagery of tents. In a sense, they have the twin facets of the carnivalesque as well as the dangerous. This chapter looks at the circus tent’s spatial economies and shifting technologies over the decades. Tents have been ubiquitous from the nineteenth century and were indispensable for a colonial state that was desperate to spread its tentacles.

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.309 54 P892j 2020