Spectacle and Leisure in Paris

Degas to Mucha

Elizabeth C Childs editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Washington University, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Published:30th Jun '17

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Spectacle and Leisure in Paris cover

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 andedouard Manet to Pablo Picasso andedouard 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.

ISBN: 9780936316437

Dimensions: 28mm x 22mm x 1mm

Weight: 510g

96 pages