Visual Ephemera

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Visual Ephemera is written by Anita Callaway and published by UNSW Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0868406341 (ISBN 10) and 9780868406343 (ISBN 13).

In what is more a history of performance than of art, Callaway (history of art and humanities, Australian National U.) retrieves ephemeral works that are overlooked in mainstream histories and considered unworthy to be taken seriously. Through transparencies, fancy-dress costumes, panoramas, and theatrical scenery, she traces the development of an eclectic carnivalesque system in which non- traditional art forms were capable of disseminating the same cultural ideas as the High Art they seemingly burlesqued. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR