Birth of a Clown

Taylor-Johnson, Sam

ISBN 10: 3865218539 / ISBN 13: 9783865218537

Edité par Steidl-Miles, Gottingen, 2013

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48 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. NOTE: Book is still in the original publisher shrink wrap. No remainder mark. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Birth of a Clown
• Éditeur: Steidl-Miles, Gottingen
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3865218539
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783865218537
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Published Without Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

In 1947 the International Circus Clowns' Club began keeping a record of its member clowns' make-up. Each unique make-up design was painted onto an emptied chicken egg that was catalogued and used to trademark the identities of clowns including the famous Coco and Grimaldi. Stan Bult, founder of the club, painstakingly painted the earliest designs by hand himself. Birth of a Clown is Sam Taylor-Johnson's photographic documentation of these fascinating objects, now part of the Clowns' Gallery and Museum in Somerset. Taylor-Johnson stumbled onto the museum by chance and has now preserved these eccentric portraits-sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad-in book form. Born in 1967, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Sam Taylor-Wood) is at the forefront of contemporary British art. Filmmaker, photographer and conceptual artist, her solo exhibitions include those at the Kunsthallle Zurich, the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. In 2009 Taylor-Johnson directed her debut feature film Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon. Her books at Steidl include Crying Men (2004), Still Lives (2006) and the upcoming Third Floor.