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Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons

Art and Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons

McPherson, Heather

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0271074078
ISBN13: 9780271074078
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 19 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England.

Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, and John Philip Kemble, gave larger-than-life performances at Drury Lane and Covent Garden; their offstage personalities garnered as much attention through portraits painted by leading artists, sensational stories in the press, and often-vicious caricatures. Likewise, artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Lawrence figured prominently outside their studios--in polite society and the emerging public sphere. McPherson considers this increasing interest in theatrical and artistic celebrities and explores the ways in which aesthetics, cultural politics, and consumption combined during this period to form a media-driven celebrity culture that is surprisingly similar to celebrity obsessions in the world today.

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