Format:
95 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karte
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28 cm
ISBN:
9780936316437
Content:
Through the lens of seven scholars, this book examines fine art and commercial design as they both reflected and helped create the vibrant culture of public spectacle in late nineteenth-century Paris. Posters and prints circulated across the city, as the new art form of cinema flourished, all part of a diverse urban climate of leisure that was particularly French. These rich visual materials served to promote the careers and talents of such celebrities as Jane Avril, Loie Fuller, and Sarah Bernhardt. Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec developed the potential of color lithography to meet the demands of these stars, while fine artists ranging from Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet to Pablo Picasso and Edouard Vuillard focused on such spectacles as the racetrack, ballet, cafe-concert, theater, and opera, asserting them as defining elements of Parisian modernity in this image-saturated milieu
Note:
Letzte Seite: "This volume is published in conjunction with an exhibition Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha, on view February 10 to May 21, 2017, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the in Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis. It was curated by Elizabeth C. Childs ..."
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City of spectacles : the visual cultures of performance, celebrity, and leisure in Paris, c. 1880-1900
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French film at the turn of the century : spectacles de curiosité
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Speed, spectacle, and sport at the racetrack : the lithographs of Manet, Anquetin, and Toulouse-Lautrec
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Degas and dance : visions of spectacle and labor
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La fée lumière : Loïe Fuller and the art of the modern poster
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Sarah Bernhardt : self-promotion, celebrity, and the modern media
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Visualizing Jewish stardom in the age of Dreyfus
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Art History
Keywords:
Paris
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Plakatwerbung
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Filmplakat
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Kunst
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Geschichte 1880-1900
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Paris
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Zeichnung
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Werbeplakat
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Tanz
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Tänzerin
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Pferderennen
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Theaterplakat
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Filmplakat
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Geschichte 1880-1900
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Bildband
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Aufsatzsammlung
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