Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha - Softcover

C. Childs, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936316438 ISBN 13: 9780936316437

Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2017

Synopsis

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, Loïe 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 Édouard Manet to Pablo Picasso and Édouard Vuillard focused on such spectacles as the racetrack, ballet, café-concert, theater, and opera, asserting them as defining elements of Parisian modernity in this image-saturated milieu.
 

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth C. Childs, Etta and Mark Steinberg Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, is a specialist in modern European art and has published extensively on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century French art and visual culture.
 

Review

"The catalogue includes many good visuals—advertisements, programs, posters, film stills—by not only well-known artists but also less-familiar practitioners" (Choice)

"The catalogue is a well-produced and solid companion to the collection." (The Burlington Magazine)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0936316438
• ISBN 13: 9780936316437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96