World's oldest blog on circus, variety and allied arts. Est.2005.
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Journal, Cabinet, Repository of Erudite Pastimes, even a Gymnasium for the Polemist and the Humorist; Consacrated to Oddities and Facts Concerning Peculiarities of Theatrical Amusements related to the Circus, Conjuring, etc.; their Connections to Fine Arts; the Uncovering the Curiosities of their Past, and the Critical and Hopefully Provocative Account of what of Interest is Remaining of their Uncertain Present. Profusely Illustrated.
Indian circus and magic posters gives us the flavour of a bollywood subculture. They looks based on some leaflet hazardously arrived perhaps from Italy or Great Britain in the suitcase of some second-rate juggler, and quickly redesigned in cheap watercolursby the local printer for the Indian impresario...
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