Artists have long been inspired by the themes of the carnival and the circus. They often identify with the craft, the courage, and the sometimes marginal existence of circus and carnival performers.

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Alan King was a Scottish Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1946. How ...

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She shows how both sought a return to craft values (though in the early 1920s Gropius enthusiastically embraced technology) and a utopian fusion of art and politics ... However, as Alan Powers points ...

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‘If I am finished now, I can finish a happy man, knowing my kids saw me play and will remember’ ...