Charles Harrison

Francis Frascina

Professor Francis Frascina

Gillian Perry

The Early Twentieth Century

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction

During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, whore, celebrity, muse, and creative agent, charting her important symbolic role in contemporary attempts to professionalize both the theatre and the practice of fine art. Gill Perry shows how artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hoppner or Lawrence produced complex images of female performers as fashion icons, coquettes, dignified queens or creative artists. The result is a rich interdisciplinary study of the Georgian actress. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theatre, 1768-1820

Spectacular Flirtations

Michael Rossington

Focusing on the visual arts and written texts, this book explores the nature of femininity and masculinity in 18th-century Britain and France. The activities and collective conditions of women as producers of art and culture are investigated, together with analysis of representation and the ways in which it might be gendered. This illustrated book should make an important contribution to debates on representation, constructions of sexuality and women as producers.

Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Art and Culture

Colin Cunningham

"This is the first of six books in the series Art and its Histories, which form the main texts of an Open University second-level course of the same name"--Preface.

Academies, Museums, and Canons of Art

Gillian Perry

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