A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists - Couverture souple

Asleson, .

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0892365579 ISBN 13 : 9780892365579

Editeur : J Paul Getty Trust Publications,US, 2001

Synopsis

Renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances, the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) revolutionized the aesthetics of eighteenth-century theater while inventing a complex public persona to promote her fame. Her flair for self-presentation was matched by the showmanship of the many artists who portrayed her.
Here three lively essays--by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, and Shearer West--explore Siddons's life and career, as well as her relationships with a number of artists. Notable among them was Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose masterpiece Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse became an icon of this great actress at the peak of her career. This lavish volume also brings together fifty-five other portraits of Siddons including works by Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, and Gilbert Stuart.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robyn Asleson, research associate at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California and author of Albert Moore: The Analysis of Beauty, Shelley Bennett, curator at the Huntington and author of Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in England, Mark Leonard and Shearer West.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: J Paul Getty Trust Publications,US
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0892365579
• ISBN 13: 9780892365579
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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