Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
Making up the boulevard -- Gazing women -- Windows and balconies -- Men, domesticity, and family |
Summary |
Charles Baudelaire's flaneur, 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 flaneur 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 |
Notes |
"An Ashgate book"--Cover |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Raum gnd |
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Europa gnd |
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Man-woman relationships in art.
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Gaze in art.
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Gaze in literature.
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Arts, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives
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Arts and society -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Home in art.
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Home in literature.
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Public spaces in art.
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Public spaces in literature.
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Flaneurs in art.
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Flaneurs in literature.
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Visual communication.
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Art and society.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Man-woman relationships in literature
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Man-woman relationships in art
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Arts and society
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Art and society
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Arts, French
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Arts, French -- Themes, motives
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Flaneurs in art
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Flaneurs in literature
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Gaze in art
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Gaze in literature
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Home in art
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Home in literature
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Men in art
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Men in literature
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Public spaces in art
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Public spaces in literature
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Visual communication
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Women in art
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Women in literature
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Flaneur
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Geschlechterrolle
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Visuelle Wahrnehmung
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France
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France -- Paris
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1351819844 |
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9781351819848 |
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9781351819831 |
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1351819836 |
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9781315213859 |
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1315213850 |
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