The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture : Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary Paperback / softback
by Marilyn R. Brown
Part of the Routledge Research in Art History series
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The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862).
Over the course of the nineteenth century, images of the Paris urchin entered the collective social imaginary as cultural and psychic sites of memory, whether in avant-garde or more conventional visual culture.
Visual and literary paradigms of the mythical gamin de Paris were born of recurring political revolutions (1830, 1832, 1848, 1871) and of masculine, bourgeois identity constructions that responded to continuing struggles over visions and fantasies of nationhood.
With the destabilization of traditional, patriarchal family models, the diminishing of the father’s symbolic role, and the intensification of the brotherly urchin’s psychosexual relationship with the allegorical motherland, what had initially been socially marginal eventually became symbolically central in classed and gendered inventions and repeated re-inventions of "fraternity," "people," and "nation." Within a fundamentally split conception of "the people," the bohemian boy insurrectionary, an embodiment of freedom, was transformed by ongoing discourses of power and reform, of victimization and agency, into a capitalist entrepreneur, schoolboy, colonizer, and budding military defender of the fatherland.
A contested figure of the city became a contradictory emblem of the nation.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 24 Illustrations, color; 37 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/07/2022
-
Category:
- General arts
- History of art / art & design styles
- History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
- Art & design styles: Romanticism
- Individual artists, art monographs
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- General & world history
- European history
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- Archaeology
- Social issues & processes
- Sociology
- ISBN:9781032339658