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| A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists | 
 enlarge | Authors: Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, Shearer West
Creator: Robyn Asleson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2613426
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0892365579
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.028092
EAN: 9780892365579
ASIN: 0892365579
Publication Date: March 8, 2001
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Product Description
Renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances, the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) revolutionized the aesthetics of eighteenth-century theater while inventing a complex public persona to promote her fame. Her flair for self-presentation was matched by the showmanship of the many artists who portrayed her.
Here three lively essays--by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, and Shearer West--explore Siddons's life and career, as well as her relationships with a number of artists. Notable among them was Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose masterpiece Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse became an icon of this great actress at the peak of her career. This lavish volume also brings together fifty-five other portraits of Siddons including works by Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, and Gilbert Stuart.
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A very sad book to be sourced from a museum March 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I knew this was a book about the life and career of Sarah Siddons, which I cared nothing for. I purchased the book solely for the advertised 56 portraits or Sarah, thinking it'd be a great treasure to be able to see and compare 56 portraits painted by different artists over her career.
I was so horribly disappointed that I can only suggest you run from this book if the works are of interest to you. Sure there are 50 color and 74 black and white illustrations, but most are thumbnails scattered through the text. There is 1 full page color portrait and 10 half page ones, the remainder are 1/4 page or smaller and most of these are full figure portraits so you can imagine how little detail they show.
If you're interested in Sarah Siddons' life and career then this may be an amazing book, I don't know since I didn't bother to read it. It's not worth buying for any other reason though.
I'd also add that if this is common to all Getty Trust publications I wouldn't purchase any more of them either.
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