Ringling: The Florida Years, 1

Weeks, David C.

ISBN 10: 0813012430 / ISBN 13: 9780813012438

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 1993

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00101578189

Inhaltsangabe:

  John Nicholas Ringling's years in Sarasota spanned the final quarter-century of his life.  On Florida's west coast, as the Ringling's Circus became "the greatest show on earth," he collected Baroque paintings, European decorative art, and Italian statuary, built the ostentatious mansion Ca'd'Zan, developed and marketed most of the barrier islands around Sarasota Bay, and became the focus of a confusing pastiche of acclaim, misconception, and suspicion.  Sarasota's Ringling Museum is his priceless cultural legacy to the people of Florida and the world of art--an inheritance at risk for the ten years that Ringling's estate was in probate.  The author of this first intensive look at Ringling's presence in Sarasota sets the man against the backdrop of Florida from World War I through the land boom and the turbulent twenties into the depression years and Ringling's lapse into obscurity.  Illustrated with nearly fifty black-and-white photographs, many never before published, this is the chronicle of a man, as the foreword claims, "who was not afraid to think or live on a grand scale, who knew what he wanted from life, and from art."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David C. Weeks, occasional lecturer in Imperial studies at the Royal Empire Society and adjunct professor at the American University Center for Technology and Administration, Washington, D.C., is a docent at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ringling: The Florida Years, 1
Verlag: University Press of Florida
Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good