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Gawkers: Art and Audience in Fin-de-siècle France

A public lecture by Dr. Bridget Alsdorf (Art History, Princeton University)

9/23/2019
4:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Carpenter 013
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Conferences, Lectures & Seminars

Focusing closely on a range of paintings and prints, this talk examines the gawker (le badaud) as an underinterrogated but significant figure for the attractions, aporias and fraught ethics of urban spectatorship in fin-de-siècle France. Characterized by collective, passive modes of navigating the city as theatre, they form a figure of modernity distinct from the far more studied flâneur.

For more information, contact:
Robert St. Clair
robert.a.st.clair@dartmouth.edu
Permanent URL to this event: https://arthistory.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=57819

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