{"product_id":"circus-americanus-9781859840030","title":"Circus Americanus","description":"\u003ci\u003eCircus Americanus\u003c\/i\u003e is a riotous excursion through America's changing visual landscape. Exploring its remote corners and bizarre byways, Ralph Rugoff takes us on a tour of theme park slums and mystical police cars, futurist war and the \"aesthetics of safe chaos.\" With an idiosyncratic eye for detail, he maps a culture in which \"reality\" has become just another theme, revealing an America much stranger than the glamorous kitsch of its surfaces. Whether he is writing about Las Vegas casinos, forensic cartoons, the enigma of Napoleon's preserved penis or the aesthetics of sewage treatment, Rugoff considers everyday marvels with a concern for how we live together in a world beyond belief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781859840030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.67h x 7.85w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/06\/1995 pg. 87\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ralph Rugoff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53241010487477,"sku":"9781859840030","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/circus-americanus-9781859840030","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}