Tag: Tricksters

In the most recent entry to this blog, guest poster Jeff Raz left us off in Japan, so while we’re all there let’s just hop one country to our left and pay a visit to China and the Beijing Opera. (Or as we called it back in the good old days, Red China and the Peking Opera.)

The Delight Makers by Adolf F. Bandelier (1890)
A novel about Pueblo Indian koshare clowns

Copenhagen’s NationalMuseet is sponsoring several excellent exhibitions relevant to the climate change summit, including Indians of the Rain Forest; Climate: Denmark from Glaciers to Global Warming; and especially Many Strong Voices, featuring projects and speakers from Arctic and Small Island Developing States who are already struggling with the results of global warning.

Hmm… Fools, Natural and Artificial… what a topic!

Chapter 1 from my book, Clowns: A Panoramic History

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My first book (1976)

My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.

My second book (2015)

Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.

“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin