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SUMMARY:Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity
DESCRIPTION:Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity \nMax Beerbohm (1872–1956)Un ReversSelf-caricaturePencil\, ink\, and watercolor on paper\, [1909]Mark Samuels Lasner Collection\, University of Delaware Library\, Museums and Press \nThe New York Public Library\nStephen A. Schwarzman Building\nSue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery\nFifth Avenue at 42nd Street\, New York\, NY \nOctober 20\, 2023–January 28\, 2024\nToday we live in a world of celebrity culture. Celebrity became an international industry in the late-nineteenth century. The English artist and author Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was at the center of it. From the 1890s through the 1920s\, to be a celebrity meant the hope—and fear—of turning up in a drawing or a parody by “Max.” His brilliant skewering of famous people in his visual caricatures and of their writing styles in his satirical works made him a celebrity himself. This was an identity he enjoyed\, but later shrank from. In essays and fiction\, he explored the price in human terms of achieving and maintaining celebrity status. Often in ways that still resonate with us now. \nThis exhibition maps the career of Sir Max Beerbohm (knighted in 1939) in relation to the idea of celebrity. It follows him from his early days in the Decadent circles of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley through his late career as a radio performer on BBC broadcasts during World War II. Along the way\, he knew\, drew\, and wrote about many other celebrities. He covered Henry James to Virginia Woolf and George Bernard Shaw to members of the Royal Family. \nExhibition\nThe New York Public Library is the perfect place for this show. A wit and a dandy\, renowned for always being impeccably dressed\, “Max” was as popular in New York City as in London. He also continues to live on. He is a subject of interest and also of caricatures in the New York Review of Books\, the New Yorker\, and other New York-based publications. \nDrawn from the extensive holdings of the Library\, along with loans from private and institutional collections\, Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity includes rare original caricature drawings\, manuscripts\, photographs\, books from Beerbohm’s library\, and personal items\, most on public display for the first time. \nThe exhibition is curated by Margaret D. Stetz\, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware\, and Mark Samuels Lasner\, Senior Research Fellow\, University of Delaware Library\, Museums and Press. \nFor more information: please contact the exhibition’s coordinating curator\, Julie Carlsen\, Assistant Curator\, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature\, The New York Public Library\, juliecarlsen@nypl.org
URL:https://manuscript.org/event/max-beerbohm-the-price-of-celebrity/
LOCATION:New York Public Library\, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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