Spectacular Flirtations - Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theater, 1768-1820

Informationen zum Autor Gill Perry is professor of art history at the Open University. Klappentext During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, whore, celebrity, muse, and creative agent, charting her important symbolic role in contemporary attempts to professionalize both the theatre and the practice of fine art. Gill Perry shows how artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hoppner or Lawrence produced complex images of female performers as fashion icons, coquettes, dignified queens or creative artists. The result is a rich interdisciplinary study of the Georgian actress. Zusammenfassung During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time! this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette! 'whore'! celebrity! muse! and creative agent.

Product details

• Authors: Gill Perry, Gill (Open University) Perry, Gillian Perry
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2007
• EAN: 9780300135442
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13544-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 235 mm x 286 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies; Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history