Mardi Gras Treasures: Float Designs of the Golden Age (Vol 2)

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The incredible parade floats of Carnival’s Golden Age (1870-1930) depicted themes drawn from mythology, epic literature, history, nature, and whimsy. The glimmering processions of the masked gods and bearded kings of New Orleans Carnival occupy a central position a few of the rites and glories of this great festival. The long succession of these glowing, torch-lit pageants–with their towering monsters and incredible decors, their papier-m�ch� kingdoms and diamond-dust thrones–changed into the greatest and most beloved of New Orleans communal rituals.

The introduction of the drift brought tremendous artistry to the luxurious conveyances for carnival revelry, however the artists and builders who created the fabled pageants have remained difficult to understand or unknown, their amazing body of work in large part forgotten. Even the surviving watercolor drift plates and chromolithographed Carnival Bulletins are artworks and prized by collectors, as so few of these fragile items remain.

Presented on this collection are dazzling examples of original drift designs as rendered in watercolor and lithographs–most of them reproduced here for the first time.

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