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Art & celebrity in the age of Reynolds & Siddons

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Abstract

Introduction : studio and stage in the age of Reynolds and Siddons -- Garrick, Reynolds, and the apotheosis of performance -- Portraiture, public display, and the politics of representation -- Staging celebrity : Siddons and tragic pallor -- Targeting celebrity : caricature and cultural politics -- Artistic afterlives and the historiography of fame

Publisher

  • Publication

    University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Is about

  • Person

  • Subject

    • Artists and theater
    • England
    • History
    • 18th century
    • Celebrities in art
    • Celebrities
    • London
    • Portraits
    • Portrait painting, English
    • Sir
    • Actresses
    • Caricature
    • Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831
    • Reynolds, Joshua, 1723-1792

  • Period

    1740-1800

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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 0271074078
    • 9780271074078

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index

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