Gawkers
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 flâneur, badauds were passive, collect...
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 flâneur, badauds were passive, collect...
