1st Edition
Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture Beyond the Flâneur
By Temma Balducci
Copyright 2017
250 Pages
8 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
8 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
8 Color & 51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Making up the Boulevard
Chapter 2: Gazing Women
Chapter 3: Windows and Balconies
Chapter 4: Men, Domesticity, and Family
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
Temma Balducci is an Associate Professor of Art History at Arkansas State University. She was co-editor of and contributor to the companion volumes Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 and Women, Femininity, and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century European Visual Culture.
"Temma Balducci’s Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture contributes to a robust literature arguing that Baudelaire’s description of Parisian modernity and its protagonist, the flâneur, have been overprivileged in nineteenth-century studies. The author sets out to extend existing revisionist accounts by broadening our perspective on nineteenthcentury French social life, making room in the canon for diverse practices and practitioners, and calling into question established interpretations of familiar works of art. Readers will be refreshed by Balducci’s descriptions of women’s presence in public space and their pleasure in looking." - Allison Deutsch, R-France Review
