Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Art of the Ephemeral in Eighteenth-Century France.
Status Quaestionis 28 (2025), edited by Elisa Cazzato.

This monographic issue explores the notion of ephemerality in French artistic culture during the long Eighteenth-Century. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, featuring articles from art and theatre history, costume-making, and performance studies, extending the notion of the ephemeral to a wide range of examples.

Table of Contents:

Elisa Cazzato
"Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Art of the Ephemeral in Eighteenth-Century France"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19167

Mark Ledbury
"'Mais, le lendemain matin'. Residues of the Ephemeral in Eighteenth-Century French Art"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19170

Noémie Étienne, Meredith Martin
"Spectacular Blindness: Enslaved Children and African Artifacts in Eighteenth-Century Paris"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19171

Ilaria Lepore
"L’art du comédien au tournant des Lumières. Conscience de l’éphémère et sensibilité mémorielle"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19172

Renaud Bret-Vitoz
"L’expérience éphémère d’Ériphyle (Voltaire, 1732): matériaux tangibles et réécritures d’une dramaturgie passagère"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19173

Pierre Frantz
"Un événement unique: le théâtre de la Révolution entre surgissement et disparition"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19174

Daniella Berman
"Ephemeral Emblem: Jacques-Louis David and the Making of a Revolutionary Martyr"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19178

Emanuele De Luca
"Les feux d’artifices des frères Ruggieri à l’intérieur d’un théâtre. L’autonomie de l’éphémère dans le Paris du XVIIIe siècle"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19176

Alessandra Mignatti
"Tra utopia e ricerca del consenso: fuochi e apparati effimeri di epoca napoleonica a Milano tra il 1801 e il 1803"
DOI: doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/19180

Petra Zeller Dotlačilová
"Witnesses of the Past: Costumes as Material Evidence of the Ephemeral Performance"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19181

Olivia Sabee
"Noverre’s lament: inscription, posterity, and the ephemeral art of dance"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19182

Cornelis Vanistendael
"Ephemerality on the Fringe. Exploring the Venues Hosting Power Quadrilles in Brussels on the Eve of Waterloo and Beyond (1814–1816)"
DOI: 10.13133/2239-1983/19183