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HomeArtArt and Theatre as a Community of Practice in Eighteenth-Century France
Art and Theatre as a Community of Practice in Eighteenth-Century France
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Art and Theatre as a Community of Practice in Eighteenth-Century France

Mark Ledbury

Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance



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ISBN: 9781785274237

Pages: 250

Pub Date: June 2026

Imprint: Anthem Press

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This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eighteenth-century France. It focuses on moments of intense collaboration between artists, actors and writers, and on the ways in which entrepreneurship, innovation and aesthetic partnership worked between theatrical and visual arts across the long history of the eighteenth century. It breaks with traditional accounts by emphasizing not the theories of Tableau or even overlaps in subject matter between visual art and theatre, but instead on innovation, risk, community and knowledge transfer in the context of an enlightenment thirst for innovation and for commercial and reputational success. It re-examines the work of familiar figures such as Boucher, Favart and David, in the context of their networks and their relations with less familiar figures from Gillot and Charles-Antoine Coypel to Ignazio Degotti and Prince Hoare, and draws on theories of innovation transfer and mutuality to re-examine the nature of the relationship between theatre and the visual arts, painting a vivid new story of ambitions, friendships, triumphs and disasters, a story which binds theatre and the visual arts in a tight, complex and highly productive mesh.

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