1st Edition
The Art of Entertainment Popular Performance in Modern British Art, 1880 to 1940
By Jason Price
Copyright 2024
164 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940, focusing on the ways in which figures from popular entertainments, such as music hall serio-comics, clowns, and circus acrobats, came to feature in modern works of art.
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1. Setting the Stage: Modernism and the Popular 2. Manipulating the Public Gaze: Minnie Cunningham the Entertainer, Artist’s Muse, and Victorian New Woman 3. Modern Daredevil: Therese Lessore’s Paintings of Swallow’s Circus at the Royal Agricultural Hall 4. Matters of Display and Consent: The Human Exhibit and Goscombe John’s Bokane 5. (Un)popular Queer Figures: Glyn Philpot’s Knowing Acrobats 6. Historical Illusionisms and Acts of Recovery
Biography
Jason Price is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a theatre historian, teacher, and art lover.
