Title Gamin de paris in nineteenth-century visual culture : delacroix, hugo, and the french social imaginary / Marilyn R. Brown

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 152 pages, 24 pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) Series Routledge research in art history ; 1 Routledge research in art history ; 1. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Revolutionary Ancestors of the Gamin de Paris; 2 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in Nineteenth-Century French Social History; 3 Child of the People and Child of the Fatherland in the French Social Imaginary; 4 The Gamin de Paris and the Revolution of 1830; 5 The Gamin de Paris in Panoramic Literature and in the Revolutions of 1848; 6 The Gamin de Paris, the Second Empire, and the Commune; 7 The Gamin de Paris During the Early Third Republic; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Art, French -- 19th century -- Social aspects Art, French -- 19th century -- Political aspects Art, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives Boys in art. Boys in literature. ART -- History -- General. Art, French -- Themes, motives Boys in art Boys in literature Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315315942 9781315315966 1315315947 1315315963 1315315955 9781315315959

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