|
|
|
books
| book details |
Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France
By (author) Bridget Alsdorf
|
| on special |
normal price: R 2 231.95
Price: R 2 120.95
|
| book description |
How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art Gawkers 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.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Princeton University Press
Published date | 22 Mar 2022
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 296
Dimensions | 267 x 203 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-6911-6638-4
Readership Age |
BISAC | art / history / modern (late 19th century to 1945)
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 3 114.95
Price | R 2 959.95
| on special |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 542.95
now: R 488.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
|
|
|
|
