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Description

1. xiii, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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.

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. Women in art
3. Women in literature
4. Men in art
5. Men in literature
6. Home in art
7. Home in literature
8. Public spaces in art
9. Public spaces in literature
10. Gaze in art
11. Gaze in literature
12. Flaneurs in art
13. Flaneurs in literature
14. Visual communication
15. Art and society
16. Arts, French > 19th century > Themes, motives
17. Arts, French > France > Paris > 19th century
18. Arts, French
19. Arts, French > Themes, motives
20. France > Paris

Contents

1. Making up the boulevard -- Gazing women -- Windows and balconies -- Men, domesticity, and family.

Call number

1. JQF 17-1547

Note

1. "An Ashgate book"-- Cover.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

Author

1. Balducci, Temma, author.

Title

1. Gender, space, and the gaze in post-Haussmann visual culture : beyond the flâneur / Temma Balducci.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

ISBN

1. 9781472445865 (hardback)
2. 1472445864 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JQF 17-1547