Format:
xiii, 228 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781472445865
Series Statement:
An Ashgate book
Content:
"Charles Baudelaire's flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the gaze in late nineteenth-century Paris, despite misgivings by some scholars. Baudelaire's privileged and leisurely figure, at home on the boulevards, underlies theorizations of bourgeois masculinity and, by implication, bourgeois femininity, whereby men gaze and roam urban spaces unreservedly while women, lacking the freedom to either gaze or roam, are wedded to domesticity. In challenging this tired paradigm and offering fresh ways to consider how gender, space, and the gaze were constructed, this book attends to several neglected elements of visual and written culture: the ubiquitous male beggar as the true denizen of the boulevard, the abundant depictions of well-to-do women looking (sometimes at men), the popularity of windows and balconies as viewing perches, and the overwhelming emphasis given by both male and female artists to domestic scenes. The book's premise that gender, space, and the gaze have been too narrowly conceived by a scholarly embrace of Baudelaire's flâneur is supported across the cultural spectrum by period sources that include art criticism, high and low visual culture, newspapers, novels, prescriptive and travel literature, architectural practices, interior design trends, and fashion journals"--Back cover
Content:
Making up the boulevard -- Gazing women -- Windows and balconies -- Men, domesticity, and family
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315213859
Language:
English
Keywords:
Paris
;
Flaneur
;
Mann
;
Frau
;
Blick
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1860-1900
;
Europa
;
Flaneur
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Raum
;
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
