The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9781032339658 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

Marilyn R. Brown

Opis

The book argues that images of the Paris urchin addressed transformations at the heart of modernity, including the decline of patriarchal, monarchical social structures and the rise of industrial capitalism and colonialism. It parses a contested national archetype that emerged from repeated, recycled representations of revolutions (1830, 1832, 1

Spis treści

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch. 1 Revolutionary Ancestors of the Gamin de Paris

Ch. 2 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century French Social History

Ch. 3 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in the French Social Imaginary

Ch. 4 The Gamin de Paris and the Revolution of 1830

Ch. 5 The Gamin de Paris in Panoramic Literature and in the Revolutions of 1848

Ch. 6 The Gamin de Paris, the Second Empire, and the Commune

Ch. 7 The Gamin de Paris during the Early Third Republic

Epilogue
Bibliography

O autorze

Marilyn R. Brown is author of Degas and the Business of Art: A Cotton Office in New Orleans (CAA Monograph, 1994) and editor of, and contributor to, Picturing Children: Constructions of Childhood Between Rousseau and Freud (Ashgate, 2002; Routledge 2017). She is professor of art history at the University of Colorado.