The Land of the Hunger Artists

Autor*innen

• Dr Oliver Hochadel
• Agusti Nieto-Galan

Parameter

• 282 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Sachbücher
• Technologie & Industrie

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From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agustí Nieto- Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Einband: Paperback