The land of the hunger artists: science, spectacle, and authority, c. 1880-1922

"From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment"--

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1. Verfasser: Nieto-Galan, Agustí 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment"--
Beschreibung:XVII, 262 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:9781009379588

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