{"product_id":"gawkers-9780691166384","title":"Gawkers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich, dense, wide-ranging survey whose central figure is the Swiss artist Félix Vallotton. . . . Alsdorf is an admirable close reader of images, clever at picking out, in a mass of bodies, a tiny figure who is doing nothing more than staring back at us, as if, across the centuries, he has spotted us gawking at him and is gawking back.\"\u003cb\u003e---Julian Barnes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Handsomely produced, exhaustively researched, \u003ci\u003eGawkers \u003c\/i\u003ecombines elegant prose with a knowingness that mimics the sly humour of its key figures. . . and penetrating visual analyses of their works\"\u003cb\u003e---Lesley Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eWorld of Interiors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alsdorf acts as a knowledgeable guide to Parisian art of the nineteenth century. . . . \u003ci\u003eGawkers\u003c\/i\u003e is recommended for enthusiasts of art of this period, as it effectively supplies a missing link for non-francophones, introducing them to the complex social signals and commentary that is present in the art we so often take for granted.\"\u003cb\u003e---Alexander Adams, \u003ci\u003eAlexander Adams Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bridget Alsdorf is a wonderfully clear writer. . . . \u003ci\u003eGawkers \u003c\/i\u003eis engaging, thoroughly researched, and generously illustrated.\"\u003cb\u003e---Heather Saunders, \u003ci\u003eARLIS\/NA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The crowd as Alsdorf envisions it turns out to be multifaceted, variously dense, and dependent on an unprecedented relationship to the spectacular. For those who follow developments in the field of the history of art in the 19th century, Alsdorf's voice has gradually revealed itself, original, elegant, knowing how to combine descriptive precision and an overall vision of the dimensions of a period. Following her masterful analysis of the portraits of Fantin-Latour from her previous book (\u003ci\u003eFellow Men\u003c\/i\u003e, 2013) is this fascinating contribution, with tight argumentation and marvelous illustrations.\"\u003cb\u003e---Julien Zanetta, \u003ci\u003eStudi Francesi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this wide-ranging and content-rich study, Alsdorf succeeds in bringing the many facets of \u003ci\u003ebadauderie\u003c\/i\u003e closer to her readers. She elucidates how closely the act of gawking in urban space is intertwined with art's ability to get people to look.… Her methodological approach is also enriching with a view to current affairs: the question of how a medium makes its audience its own subject proves fruitful beyond nineteenth-century Paris.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michelle Sturm-Müller, \u003ci\u003e21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alsdorf’s fine monograph allows a fresh perspective on late-nineteenth-century France, on its spectacles and streets, and on the figures which depicted and shaped a rapidly changing world. It is a welcome addition to a growing body of work that seeks to offer a counterpoint to the vision of leisure and flânerie that has dominated discussions of late-nineteenth-century French art, and will no doubt benefit scholarship in French studies, art history, and theatre studies.\"\u003cb\u003e---Claire Moran, \u003ci\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eGawkers\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a genuinely new way of considering printmaking, its makers and its audiences during an especially rich moment in the medium’s history and is sure to inspire future work in this field.\"\u003cb\u003e---Britany Salsbury, \u003ci\u003ePrint Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865532477783,"sku":"9780691166384","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691166384.jpg?v=1722274423","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gawkers-9780691166384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}