| Description |
ix, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Critical perspectives in art history |
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Critical perspectives in art history.
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| Contents |
Gender and the haunting of cities (or, the retirement of the flâneur) / Janet Wolff -- Women in public : the display of femininity in the parks of Paris / Greg M. Thomas -- Dusting the surface, or the bourgeoise, the veil, and Haussmann's Paris / Marni Kessler -- Disorienting Orient : Duret and Guimet, anxious flâneurs in Asia / Ting Chang -- Transcrypts : some notes between pricks / Simon Leung -- Not the flâneur again : reading magazines and living the metropolis around 1880 / Tom Gretton -- The flâneuse in French fin-de-siècle posters : advertising images of modern women in Paris / Ruth E. Iskin -- Why the Impressionists never painted the department store / Aruna D'Souza -- City of strangers / Tom McDonough -- The contemporary flâneuse / Helen Scalway |
| Summary |
This work brings together analysis of the gendered experience of urban space in an art historical context, with contributions from noted scholars |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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Arts, French -- 19th century.
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Flaneurs in art.
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Public spaces in art.
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Public spaces -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.
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Women in art.
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| Author |
D'Souza, Aruna.
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McDonough, Tom.
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| LC no. |
01331597 |
| ISBN |
0719067847 (cased) |
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9780719067846 (cased) |
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