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- L'auteur
- 20 x 26.5 cm
- 136 pages
- 180 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8380-7
- Text in French only
Within the fascination and mystique of the world created by the circus, the circus venue itself participates in this alchemy, at once seemingly both a fixed building and a removable marquee. Its history is inseparable from that of the journey. Its first artists, cavalry officers who left the army to practice aerobatics in public, had a culture of camp life. By perpetuating the tradition of nomadism, they adopt its architecture, whose attribute is ephemeral: the material, the canvas, the structure, the masts and the tensioners. Throughout the centuries, tents and marquees have competed in beauty, luxury and technical prowess. Across the United States, Europe, Egypt, Persia, Turkey, Russia and as far as Mongolia, this book takes us into the vibrant lives of adventurers and conquerors who built our world. Step by step, we discover with childlike wonder the black tent of Abraham, the monumental palace of Tamerlane, the resplendent tents of Suleiman the Magnificent, and the camps of Abd el-Kader, Barnum and Bailey or Buffalo Bill.