"This chapter examines the figure of the divinely-inspired deracinated painter, at odds with society, whose alienation is an inverted sign of the merit of his work, within the neglected tradition of the vaudeville, the short, topical, one-act comic dramas performed in late-eighteenth and early-...

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1. Verfasser:	Adams, Steven 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2021
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1789-1900 Französische Revolution Künstler > Motiv Komödie Frankreich
Zusammenfassung:	"This chapter examines the figure of the divinely-inspired deracinated painter, at odds with society, whose alienation is an inverted sign of the merit of his work, within the neglected tradition of the vaudeville, the short, topical, one-act comic dramas performed in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Paris. The figure of the alienated artist so prevalent in the period’s comic theatre can be seen as a response to the profession’s deregulation brought about by the French Revolution, a period in which the supply of art overtook demand and when painting lost its legitimacy and was forced to find a self-sustaining rationale of its own. Yet vaudevilles were in fact sustained by a curious set of preoccupations around gender, domesticity and abstraction largely alien to modernist criticism. Tracing these comic conventions across the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, this chapter creates an alternative art historical timeline set in motion by the French Revolution."
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-1-5013-4839-6