Idle Training: Scenes of Pleasure at Muscle Beach, 1934-1958 (and what came after)
NOV 11 2018
A Brunel University research seminar on Muscle Beach from 1934 to 1958, treating the site as a performance space. Muscle Beach was a 1934 WPA New Deal installation rather than private enterprise, and this talk covers the acrobatic and hand balancing culture in which Abbye Stockton worked.
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