Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha
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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, Lo e 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 douard Manet to Pablo Picasso and douard Vuillard focused on such spectacles as the racetrack, ballet, caf -concert, theater, and opera, asserting them as defining elements of Parisian modernity in this image-saturated milieu.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0936316438
ISBN13:9780936316437
Release Date:April 2017
Publisher:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Length:96 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 8.5" x 10.9"
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