1st Edition
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art Agency, Performance, and Representation
By Ersy Contogouris
Copyright 2018
202 Pages
14 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
14 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
14 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton appears, her performances, and writings by her contemporaries to establish her impact on this... Read more
Introduction: Emma Hamilton, the most beautiful compound ever beheld
1. La vie de Lady Hamilton est un roman
2. The acme of Sir William’s Delights
3. Emma’s Attitudes: Movements and Surprising Transformations
4. The Tarantella
5. Model, Muse, and Artist
Conclusion
Biography
Ersy Contogouris is Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal, Canada.
