This thesis examines the commedia dell’arte character Pierrot through the lens of gender performance in order to decipher the ways in which he complicates and expands understandings of gender and the normative model of sexuality in fin de siècle France. Beginning with a case study of a chromolithograph by Jules Chéret, the first chapter of this thesis traces the perceived relation between Pierrot and the bohemian artist, and the underlying tensions between the male dominated artistic sphere and increasingly emancipated women. In contrast, Chapter II complicates the dominant impression of Pierrot’s association with the artists of bohemian Montmartre, and instead explores the way in which Pierrot is visually appropriated by female actors to c...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2011. Major: Theatre Arts. Advisor:Dr. Sonja K...
Early seventeenth-century French art has hitherto been the domain of specialists and connoisseurs. T...
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is renowned for being the greatest and most influential mime artist before Marc...
This thesis examines the commedia dell’arte character Pierrot through the lens of gender performance...
Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trou...
With few exceptions, the understanding of the commedia dell’arte character of Pierrot in musicology ...
A close reading of the language used in the writings of late nineteenth-century Parisian mime artist...
Please follow the DOI link on the top of the record to access the full-text of this article on the p...
Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations,...
This dissertation offers an explanation for the exclusion of women from the broad category of artist...
Voluptuous women populated the canvases and studios of Henri Matisse for over fifty years. His endle...
My studio-based research plays with the concepts of disguise, the trickster archetype, sweet kitsch,...
When press censorship was abolished in France in 1881, Parisian newspapers saw an explosion of creat...
This article examines a series of popular and middlebrow works of fiction from the 1920s which repre...
This dissertation explores how the body has been historically constructed as a performing agent in L...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2011. Major: Theatre Arts. Advisor:Dr. Sonja K...
Early seventeenth-century French art has hitherto been the domain of specialists and connoisseurs. T...
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is renowned for being the greatest and most influential mime artist before Marc...
This thesis examines the commedia dell’arte character Pierrot through the lens of gender performance...
Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trou...
With few exceptions, the understanding of the commedia dell’arte character of Pierrot in musicology ...
A close reading of the language used in the writings of late nineteenth-century Parisian mime artist...
Please follow the DOI link on the top of the record to access the full-text of this article on the p...
Why did some Victorian and Edwardian music-hall acts, namely the swell song and male impersonations,...
This dissertation offers an explanation for the exclusion of women from the broad category of artist...
Voluptuous women populated the canvases and studios of Henri Matisse for over fifty years. His endle...
My studio-based research plays with the concepts of disguise, the trickster archetype, sweet kitsch,...
When press censorship was abolished in France in 1881, Parisian newspapers saw an explosion of creat...
This article examines a series of popular and middlebrow works of fiction from the 1920s which repre...
This dissertation explores how the body has been historically constructed as a performing agent in L...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. September 2011. Major: Theatre Arts. Advisor:Dr. Sonja K...
Early seventeenth-century French art has hitherto been the domain of specialists and connoisseurs. T...
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is renowned for being the greatest and most influential mime artist before Marc...