Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France

Publication Year
2022

Type

Book
Abstract

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. 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.

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISSN Number
9780691166384
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