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Smyth, Patricia (2019) Theatricality, Michael Fried, and nineteenth-century art and theatre. Performance Research, 24 (4). pp. 5-9. doi:10.1080/13528165.2019.1641314 ISSN 1352-8165.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2019.1641314
Abstract
This provocation uses a case study of the French history painter Paul Delaroche to examine the way in which theatricality is invoked as a critical term. Michael Fried considers Delaroche’s work to exemplify theatricality, a designation that, for him, connotes qualities of exaggeration and inauthenticity, but I argue that this is not how Delaroche was viewed in his own time. This leads to a wider consideration of the assumptions that underpin thinking about theatricality. In particular, I question the idea that theatricality is a quality of popular, as opposed to avant-garde, art. Finally, I want to challenge the automatic association between theatre and artifice that is threaded through discussions of theatricality.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > ND Painting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Performance Research | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1352-8165 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 17 September 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 24 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 5-9 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13528165.2019.1641314 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Performance Research on 17/09/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2019.1641314 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 June 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 March 2021 | ||||||
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