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The last Coney Island Mardi Gras was held in 1954. Diminishing crowds and poor returns for the local businesses had rendered the event unsustainable, and the iconic seaside playground had begun its inexorable slide into decline. Coney Island meets New Orleans. The annual Mardi Gras celebration lasted from 1903, the heart of Coney’s heyday, until 1954 — the heart of the Robert Moses years. Curiously, it always took place in mid-September, which I suppose is a nicer time for a New York parade than February, the traditional date of Marti Gras. Description of the annual Mardi Gras celebration and parade on Coney Island. The Coney Island Mardi Gras was a week-long celebration started early in the 20th century. It was a yearly event until the second World War, then returned in the 50's for a few years. With the decline of Coney in the 60's the parade was abandoned, to be revived as the For 50 years, Coney Island held a weeklong Mardi Gras wingding that rivaled the crowds, kitsch and decadence on display last week in New Orleans. Nightly parades along Surf Ave. drew as many as 500 Before there were Mermaids, there was Mardi Gras. Above: ghoulish revelers from the 1911 parade An even larger collection of freaks and aquatic oddities than Coney Island’s everyday normal assortment will come slithering down Surf Avenue this Saturday with the 26th annual Mermaid Parade. The parade is the heart of Coney’s modern freak-show aesthetic, Christmastime Read More Just as Coney Island represented a shift in public amusement, so, too, did the evolution of carnival in Louisiana. From the spontaneous processions of mid-nineteenth century New Orleans to the proliferation of participatory parades such as Spanish Town Mardi Gras and Chewbacchus, find out how Mardi Gras has changed over time, reflecting a Robin Jaffee Frank, "Coney Island Baby," in "Essays in Honor of Helen A. Cooper," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2015), 118, fig. 1 Robin Jaffee Frank et al., Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008 , exh. cat. Reports were that 150,000 revelers had come out to Coney Island for the final day of its Mardi Gras season. The stalwart Bowery Boys site offers a report on this largely forgotten tradition: The annual Mardi Gras celebration lasted from 1903, the heart of Coney’s heyday, until 1954 — the heart of the Robert Moses years. Title Coney Island Mardi Gras; Call Number CONE_0159; Cite As Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History; Summary Night view: group of sailors marching in Coney Island Mardi Gras parade; men in front are carrying large flags on poles several buildings and spectators in background. Date 1943; Format 1953 Coney Island Mardi Gras: Description: Night view: two men wearing suits sitting in back seat of convertible automobile and Black man wearing uniform sitting in driver's seat; banner attached to antenna: "Mid-County Buick;" banner attached to driver's door: "1953 Grand Marshal." Caption: "1953 Coney Island Mardi Gras, September 7-13. The Italian-born Joseph Stella wrote that Coney Island presented the “most intense arabesque [of the] surging crowd and the revolving machines generating violent, dangerous pleasures.” This cacophony of electric lights, gyrating dancers, and radiating steel beams of the Ferris wheel and roller coasters was his first American subject. In Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras, Stella chose Luna Park’s Mardi Gras celebration as his inspiration. The artist called the annual event “the new bacchanal ,” for it combined diverse crowds with technology , lights, and a raw excitement that symbolized the prosperity of America. Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras Stella began this abstract rendition of the sights and sounds of Coney Island in late 1912, after returning to the United States from Paris. Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras is a Futurist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Joseph Stella from 1913 to 1914. It lives at the Yale University Art Gallery in the United States. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Parties and Crowds. Source Download See Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras in the Kaleidoscope From Yale University Art Gallery, Joseph Stella, Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras (1913-1913), Oil on canvas, 77 × 84 3/4 in Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras, 1914 by Joseph Stella (1877–1946) The letters C-O-M allude to the commedia dell’arte, the European equivalent of secular Mardi Gras. Iconclass 43A1224 Shrove Tuesday, 'Mardi gras' ~ non-liturgical celebrations of carnival 43A1224(+1) Shrove Tuesday, 'Mardi gras' ~ non-liturgical celebrations of carnival + festive decoration ~ festive activities 43A1224(+3) File:Joseph Stella, 1913–14, Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras, oil on canvas, 195.6 × 215.3 cm, Yale University Art Gallery.tif; File:Joseph Stella - Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gra - 1941.689 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg Inspired by the Coney Island Mardi Gras parades of old, the Mermaid Parade was transformed by its participants into a new kind of community celebration. By the late 1980s, it was at the top of every list of “must-do” things in New York, and is, without question, the official opening of summer in the city. Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras, 1913-14 Art Print by Joseph Stella. Find art you love and shop high-quality art prints, photographs, framed artworks and posters at Art.com. 100% satisfaction guaranteed.
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