1000 Clowns

The clown imagery gathered here ranges from beautiful to touching to funny to just plain disturbing. Find all kinds of clowns, from the most famous to the most obscure, in photographs, film and television, paintings, and graphics. The insightful text will enlighten you about the history of clowns and is complemented by a list of America`s clowns, a clown filmography, and the "Eight Clown Commandments."

Among the wild and wacky clowns featured: Emmett Kelly, Paul Jung, Felix Adler, George Adams, Otto Griebling, Arthur Borello, Bumpsy Anthony, Paul "Chesty" Mortier

About the editor:
Cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann is Executive Editor for TASCHEN America, and author of numerous books on architecture, pop culture, and the history of the West Coast, Los Angeles, and Hollywood. His unrivaled private collection of ephemera has been featured in museum exhibitions around the world and dozens of books.

About the author:
Los Angeles-based, Grammy award-winning art director H. Thomas Steele is the author and designer of the best-selling popular culture graphics books: The Hawaiian Shirt, Bowl-O-Rama, Close Cover Before Striking, and Lick`em, Stick`em. He has had a life-long interest in clowns, and considers them to be a lost art from a more naive time of the last century. If he has anything in common with clowns it may be that he likes to put a smile on people's faces – and he has been known to deliver a mean cream pie.