Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France

by Bridget Alsdorf

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 fl?neur, badauds were passive, collective, instinctive, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691166382
• ISBN13: 9780691166384
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.8"