HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jane Avril, Frame Story, Lithography
25 Nov 2016
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History of art 180c lecture 21 toulouse-lautrec and late spectacle. People went for the spectacle as part of the spectacle (it fed upon itself) Post-franco prussian war paris was controlled by a republic that was lasting but shaken by instability people turned to pleasure and leisure to distract themselves from political and socio-economic matters. The wax museum became a platform the public engaged with. Manet, nana, 1877: in dialogue with emile zola"s novel nana, the main subject is the woman, a man is bisected by the frame. Jane avril was one of these crazy ladies : charcot himself diagnosed her with something called chorea , because she was allowed to dance freely at the yearly ball, she was hired to dance at the moulin rouge. Carte-de-visites were cheap, portable objects that easily spread celebrity. One would have the initial grey outline. One would have the black blocking and contrast. Final product is an accumulation of line and color over multiple.
