Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de Siècle

ISBN-13: 9781032089928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Jennifer Forrest

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).