1st Edition
Staging the Artist Performance and the Self-Portrait from Realism to Expressionism
By Claire Moran
Copyright 2017
192 Pages
8 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
8 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Restoring the role of theatrical performance as both subject and trope in the aesthetics of self-representation, Staging the Artist questions how nineteenth-century French and Belgian artists self-consciously fashioned their identities through their art and writings. This emphasis on performance allows for a new understanding of the processes of self-fashioning which underlie self-representation... Read more
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Pose and the Posture
Chapter Two: Role-Playing and Acting
Chapter Three: Aesthetic Performances
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Claire Moran is Lecturer in French at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
