Restoring the role of theatrical performance as both subject and
trope in the aesthetics of self-representation, Staging the Artist
questions how nineteenth-century French and Belgian artists
self-consciously fashioned their identities through their art and
writings. This emphasis on performance allows for a new
understanding of the processes of self-fashioning which underlie
self-representation in word and image. Claire Moran offers new
interpretations of works by major nineteenth-century figures such
as Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas, and addresses the neglected topic
of the function of theatre in the development of modern visual art.
Incarnating Baudelaire's metaphor of the artist as an actor
ever-conscious of his role, the artists discussed "Courbet, Ensor
and Van Gogh, among others" employed theatre as both a thematic
source and formal inspiration in their painting, writings and
social behaviour. Moran argues that what renders this visual,
literary and social performance modern is its self-consciousness,
which in turn serves as a model with which to challenge pictorial
convention. This book suggests that tracing modern performance and
artistic identity to the nineteenth century provides a greater
understanding not only of the significance of theatre in the
development of modern art, but also highlights the self-conscious
staging inherent to modern artistic identity.
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