TY - JOUR
AU - Nye, Robert A
AB - 82 • Book Reviews Pierrot and His World: Art, Theatricality, and the Marketplace in France, 1697–1945 By Marika Takanishi Knowles Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2024. 264 pp. £85. ISBN 978-1-5261-7409-3. In this illuminating and densely-argued book, Marika Takanishi Knowles follows the rep- resentations of the stock theatrical character Pierrot from the late seventeenth century to 1945 in painting, prints, pantomime, theatre, photographs, cinema and mixed media. She is not just interested in sorting out the myriad portrayals of Pierrot, but in analysing him in the social, cultural and art historical contexts in which he appears. Sometimes he shares a setting with his partners in the Italian Comedy, Arlequin and Columbine, but she focusses particularly on instances where he emerges as a figure presenting himself to audiences for their judgments on who he is, what he is doing and what he means to them. Though Pierrot assumed many guises over these years, his archetypal representation was in baggy white canvas clothes, headgear of some sort and a dusting of flour on his face. By placing a plain Pierrot in theatres and market - places where clothes and costumes were displayed, bought and performed in, she hopes to tease out the 
TI - Pierrot and His World: Art, Theatricality, and the Marketplace in France, 1697–1945
JF - French History
DO - 10.1093/fh/crae056
DA - 2025-01-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/pierrot-and-his-world-art-theatricality-and-the-marketplace-in-france-hdR14yHTCM
SP - 82
EP - 83
VL - 39
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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