John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
2024•1h 30m•9.5•Released
Documentary
Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio. Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke.
Director
David Bickerstaff
Studio
Exhibition on Screen (GB)
Production
Company
Exhibition on Screen (GB)
Producer
Amanda Wilkie
Producer
Phil Grabsky
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