Spectacle and leisure in Paris : Degas to Mucha / edited by Elizabeth C. Childs ; essays by Elizabeth C. Childs, Colin Burnett ; contributions by Meg Galindo, Lauren A. Johnson, Kirsten Marples, Lindsay Sheedy, Rachel Tuteur.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Childs, Elizabeth C., editor, contributor.
• Burnett, Colin, contributor.
• Galindo, Meg, contributor.
• Johnson, Lauren A., contributor.
• Marples, Kirsten, contributor.
• Sheedy, Lindsay, contributor.
• Tuteur, Rachel, contributor.
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, host institution, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Art, French--France--Paris--19th century--Exhibitions.
• Motion pictures--France--Paris--19th century--Exhibitions.
• Celebrities in art.
• Spectacular, The, in art.
• Leisure in art.
• Motion pictures.
• Art, French.
• Paris (France)--In art--Exhibitions.
• Leisure in art--Exhibitions.
• Spectacular, The, in art--Exhibitions.
• Celebrities in art--Exhibitions.
• France--Paris.

Genre:

• Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[St. Louis, Missouri] : Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, [2017]

Contents:

• City of spectacles : the visual cultures of performance, celebrity, and leisure in Paris, c. 1880-1900 / Elizabeth C. Childs
• French film at the turn of the century : spectacles de curiosité / Colin Burnett
• Speed, spectacle, and sport at the racetrack : the lithographs of Manet, Anquetin, and Toulouse-Lautrec / Kirsten Marples
• Degas and dance : visions of spectacle and labor / Lindsay Sheedy
• La fée lumière : Loïe Fuller and the art of the modern poster / Lauren A. Johnson
• Sarah Bernhardt : self-promotion, celebrity, and the modern media / Meg Galindo
• Visualizing Jewish stardom in the age of Dreyfus / Rachel Tuteur.

Notes:

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, held February 10 to May 21, 2017, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9780936316437
• 0936316438

OCLC:

974923877