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New Burlesque

Door Katharina Bosse

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#367740-ZB23
Titel
New Burlesque
Auteur
Bosse, Katharina
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
New York : Distributed Art Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
189102499X
ISBN13
9781891024993
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous photographs in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Before it was a show business genre, burlesque was an attitude. It was parody, outrageousness, exaggeration, pastiche--even grotesquerie. If in 19th- and 20th-century America the term came to signify a variety show of light comedy, dance, and strip tease, eventually descending to a plateau of triviality, cheap sexuality, and predictable gaudy costumes, it has now--Woo Hoo! Ladies!--been resuscitated. (It's amazing what a feminist revolution can accomplish when pasties and sequins are introduced.) In New Burlesque, Katharina Bosse takes a trip across the United States to meet and document every proponent of the unabashed renaissance that she can get her camera lens around. Her colorful series of let-it-all-hang-out portraits of Babette la Fave, Kitten DeVille, Kitty Crimson, Ruby Darling, D... (Lees verder)irty Martini, D'Milo, Starlet O'Hara, Scarlette Fever, Ursulina, and their many sisters give a wild, wicked stage to the very grown-up darlings of a new century. Whether pictured in a saloon or a kitchen, by the side of a country road or in front of a parking lot, these dames show it just how they please.
Pagina's
86
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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