Date: 29 March 2011 (Tuesday)<\/strong> This lecture explores the role of painted, graphic and photographic portraiture of actresses in the construction of celebrity culture. Focusing partly on late seventeenth and eighteenth century portraiture of British actresses such as Nell Gwyn, Peg Woffington, Mary Robinson and Sarah Siddons, it considers the assumption that the eighteenth century marked the beginning of modern celebrity culture, encouraged by the increased dissemination of visual imagery of theatrical stars and secular \u2018idols\u2019. It also explores the idea that then, as now, celebrity culture could be seen to have a \u2018feminine face\u2019, and that women were both highly visible and influential within public spaces of entertainment of the period. The lecture would draw parallels with modern \u2018star systems\u2019 and the ways in which modern forms of celebrity portraiture, especially photographic images, are coded as \u2018divine divas\u2019, goddesses, \u2018sex kittens\u2019, \u2018bad girls\u2019 and independent women. Exploring eighteenth century imagery alongside 20th century photography of modern stars such as Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Vanessa Redgrave and Elizabeth Taylor, it would explore the fantasy of \u2018public intimacy\u2019 which is invited by portraiture from both periods.<\/p>\n This lecture draws on research for my forthcoming curated exhibition and catalogue \u2018The First Actresses\u2019 opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London in October, 2011<\/p>\n Speaker: Gill Perry <\/strong><\/p>\n Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University, where she has chaired several courses, including Modern Art: Practices and Debates and Art and its Histories<\/em>. She has published books, articles and catalogue introductions on modern and contemporary European and American art, and eighteenth century and contemporary British art, and has a particular interest in issues of gender difference within art history and visual culture. She is currently Head of Research and External Collaborations for the Department of Art History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Portraiture and Celebrity: From the First Actresses to the Modern Diva Date: 29 March 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU This lecture explores the role of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[183],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-2601","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-visitingscholar","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2601\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime: 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nVenue: Room 2.38, Main Building, HKU<\/strong><\/p>\n