French Paintings of Childhood and Adolescence, 1848–1886

Anna Green (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27576-8 (ISBN)

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The premise of Anna Green's timely and original book, is that nineteenth-century representations of childhood and adolescence-in paintings, but also in other forms of visual culture and in diverse written discourses of the period-are critical for understanding modernity. Whilst such well-worn signifiers for modernity as the city, the dandy and the prostitute have been well mined, childhood and adolescence have not. Paintings of the young produced in France from 1848 to 1886, Green contends, inform not only our understanding of modern life but also our perception of modernist or avant-garde painting. Figuring largely are Manet and the Impressionists, as well as a gamut of more traditional painters of children who are crucial in providing context for the avant garde. Because modernity is an essentially urban phenomenon, Green's focus is primarily on the city, usually Parisian, child. The painted youth of her study are organized initially by class and gender. Then the chapters are structured according to themes (parent-child relations, modes of discipline, work, education, and play, the spectacle, sexuality) that straddle the congruences among the book's triple trajectory: the young, their modernist representations, and the experience of modernity. Green's interdisciplinary approach ensures that this book will be of interest not only to art historians but to all those concerned with the cultural and social history of childhood.

Anna Green is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia, and at Department of Art History, Norwich University College of the Arts, UK

Contents: Introduction; Manet's Music in the Tuileries Gardens: childhood - modernity - Paris; Working children, dangerous children; Spectacular girls: young Parisiennes of the streets and stage; 'Good little girls': 'eternal immaturity'; 'To make men of her sons': constructs of masculinity; Boys will be boys: childhood, sex, and adolescence; 'Inside the dark continent': hysterical pleasures; Conclusion: 'the child is father of the man'; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-27576-X / 113827576X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27576-8 / 9781138275768
Zustand	Neuware