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The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture - Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary (Paperback)
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The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture - Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
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The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in
Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and
Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables (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.
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