Jennifer Forrest

Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de Siècle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in the French Fin de siècle explores the myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist, examining the circus posters of Jules Chéret, Thomas Couture's Pierrot and Harlequin paintings, and Honoré Daumier's saltimbanque paintings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781032089928
• ISBN-10: 103208992X
• Artikelnr.: 62150040

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Forrest is Professor of French at Texas State University. She is the editor of The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on Film Series (McFarland, 2008) and co-editor of Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (SUNY, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: 1857, Part I: Plays with Sad Clowns
Chapter Two: 1857, Part II: Making Clown Faces
Chapter Three: 1879, Part I: Suspending Identity with the Hanlon-Lees
Chapter Four: 1879, Part II: Time and Space and the Hanlon-Lees Effect
Chapter Five: The Paradox of the Lady Acrobat
Chapter Six: The Poetics of Pantomime and Circus, Part I: Jules Laforgue
Chapter Seven: The Poetics of Pantomime and Circus, Part II: Octave Mirbeau
Epilogue