UID:
almahu_9949481465502882
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.) :
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140 color + 17 b/w illus.
ISBN:
9780691232416
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9783110992809
Content:
How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French artGawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street life through the eyes of curious viewers known as badauds. In contrast to the singular and aloof bourgeois flâneur, badauds were passive, collective, instinctive, and highly impressionable. Above all, they were visual, captivated by the sights of everyday life. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of new research, Gawkers excavates badauds as a subject of deep significance in late nineteenth-century French culture, as a motif in works of art, and as a conflicted model of the modern viewer.Bridget Alsdorf examines the work of painters, printmakers, and filmmakers who made badauds their artistic subject, including Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eugène Carrière, Charles Angrand, and Auguste and Louise Lumière. From morally and intellectually empty to sensitive, empathetic, and humane, the gawkers these artists portrayed cut across social categories. They invite the viewer's identification, even as they appear to threaten social responsibility and the integrity of art.Delving into the ubiquity of a figure that has largely eluded attention, idling on the margins of culture and current events, Gawkers traces the emergence of social and aesthetic problems that are still with us today.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1 Accident --
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Chapter 2 Audience --
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Chapter 3 Street Theater --
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Chapter 4 Attraction --
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Conclusion --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Index --
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Photography and Copyright Credits
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992809
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110992816
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
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Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110749731
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691166384
Language:
English
Keywords:
Bildband
DOI:
10.1515/9780691232416
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691232416?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691232416
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