Main entry:

Weedon, Geoff.

Title & Author:

Fairground art : the art forms of travelling fairs, carousels, and carnival midways / by Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward.

Publication:

New York : Abbeville Press, ©1981.

Description:

312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 34 cm

Notes:
Place and publisher from label on title page.
On spine: White Mouse Editions.
Publisher from label on t.p.; label covers imprint: White Mouse Editions.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index.
Part One: The Age of Steam -- The Fairground Revolution -- The English Gallopers -- C.J. Spooner, Burton-on-Trent -- Anderson's of Bristol -- The German Karussell -- The Carousel in France and Belgium -- The American Carousel: Coney Island Style -- Dentzel and The Philadelphia Style -- The Philadelphia Toboggan Company -- Country Fair Style -- C.W. Parker of Kansas -- Carousel Chariots and Americana -- Fantastic Creatures -- Part Two: Fairground Baroque -- Show-Cloths and Showfronts -- Early American Showfronts -- The European Salon Carousel -- The Circular Switchback -- The Travelling Scenic Railway -- Part Three: The Modern Movement -- Fast Rides and Futuristic Designers -- The English Round Stall -- Part Four: The Figurative Tradition -- Targets, Shies and Shooting Galleries -- Painted Banners -- Humour and Figurative Artists -- Sex and Horror -- Heroes and Heroines -- Appendix.

Summary:

The imaginative, often bizarre decorations that enliven fairgrounds, amusement parks and carnivals have a never-ending appeal to the popular imagination. Stunning carved and painted carousel horses, sinister mechanical targets, terrifying rides and alluring freak show banners are among the many wildly ornamented devices that use sex, horror and humour to entice fairground visitors to sample their wares. "Fairground Art" is the first book ever to thoroughly reveal the fascinating history of this unique art form. Featuring over 1,100 illustrations - more than 700 in extravagant colour - it has been described by the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" as a magical delight and by the "Financial Times" as a dazzling tour-de-force of riotous colour which must now be considered the definitive work.

ISBN:

0896593096
9780896593091
0904568288
9780904568288
0896595293 (USA)
9780896595293 (USA)

Subject:

Fairground art Themes, motives.
Folk art Themes, motives.
Art forain Thèmes, motifs.
Art populaire Thèmes, motifs.
Kermis.
Versieringskunst.
Amusement parks History Pictorial works.
Amusement parks Pictorial works.
Merry-go-round History Pictorial works.
Merry-go-round Pictorial works.
Fairs History

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Ward, Richard (Author of Fairground art)
Ward, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 128892
Call No.: IDM; ID:86-B6703
Status: Available