About Us
The Flying Trapeze Press was formed to publish scholarly books in art history and other fields in which images, films and sound clips on a DVD disk supplement the paper text. The name of the Press refers to a highlight of the long tradition of printing and publishing in Cincinnati when, during the heyday of the traveling circus, most American circus posters were printed by the Strobridge Lithographing Company. It also refers to a colorful passage in the first book published by The Flying Trapeze Press, Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism, describing Moholy’s 1929 Berlin production of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, when, during the singing of the opera’s famed “Barcarolle,” three female trapeze artists swung from the stage over the orchestra pit and out over the audience.