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Title: LAND OF THE HUNGER ARTISTS
SCIENCE, SPECTACLE AND AUTHORITY, C.1880-1922
By: Agusti Nieto-Galan
Format: Paperback / softback

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ISBN 10: 1009379569
ISBN 13: 9781009379564
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 December, 2023
Pages: 300
Description: From the 1880s to the 1920s, public performances of extreme fasting by caged hunger artists became a very popular source of entertainment. Agusti Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as both urban spectacle and subject of scientific study and experiment.
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