Homme des foules, dandy, flâneurFashion and the Metropolis 1850-1940

Proposed structure for the talk:IntroductionParis and modernityThe painter of modern life - homme des foules, dandy, flâneurLa FlâneuseMetropolis and mental lifeArcades and the end of the flâneur

Homme des foules, dandy, flâneurFashion and the Metropolis 1850-1940

cover illustration: Eugène Guérard, Physiognomies of Paris no.4: The Boulevard des Italiens (the Tortoni, 4 o’clock in the afternoon), 1856, colour lithograph with hand-colouring, 29.2 x 41.8 cm

Introduction

Constantin Guys, At the Races, 1860-64, watercolour, crayon and ink, 38 x 52.6 cm

Jean Béraud, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, c.1885, oil on canvas, 147.6 x 106.4 cm

Paris and modernity

Les Pérelle, Place Royale, view of the north range, c.1645, etching, 26 x 16 cm

Charles Baudelaire, Self-Portrait Under the Influence of Hashish, 1842-45, pencil, watercolour and ink, 21.5 x 17 cm

The painter of modern life - homme des foules, dandy, flâneur

Constantin Guys, Promenade, 1852-60, watercolour and ink, 24.3 x 41.5 cm

Constantin Guys, Elegant Women, 1860-64, watercolour and ink, 17.3 x 22.2 cm

Constantin Guys, Salon de luxe, 1880-85, ink and wash on wove paper, 16.4 x 21 cm

Constantin Guys, Accroche-cœur, 1865-70, watercolour and ink, 15.9 x 10.9 cm

Constantin Guys, Working Girl, 1860-64, watercolour and ink, 22.4 x 16.8 cm

Constantin Guys, Promenade, 1852-60, watercolour and ink, 24.3 x 41.5 cm

Édouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries, 1862, oil on canvas, 76 x 118 cm

La Flâneuse

Paul Gavarni, Portrait of George Sand in Student Garb, 1830s, lithograph, c.20 x 12 cm

Paul Gavarni, ‘The Débardeur male and female... alive! brought back from a trip around the world by Monsieur Chicard, celebrated naturalist, with the permission of the authorities!... The Débardeur is a carnivore, a smoker, is rabid and nocturnal. It eats game, poultry and fish! It eats oysters, sole au gratin, and lobster mayonnaise! It eats anything... it is even said that is eats its little ones... that’s distressing.’, 1840, lithograph, 19.9 x 15.6 cm

Paul Gavarni, ‘You were unaware that this dance was prohibited by the authorities? Unlikely... give me your names and occupations.’, 1838, lithograph, 19.9 x 15.7 cm

Metropolis and mental life

Carl Langhammer, Berlin Alexanderplatz at Night, 1895, oil on canvas

Sasha Stone, Street Hawker (Berlin), 1927-29, gelatine silver print

Sasha Stone, ‘The Parisian owner of this cinema rents out his vestibule during the daytime to a street hawker’, 1929, gelatine silver print

Aecades and the end of the flâneur

Germaine Krull, Walter Benjamin, 1926, gelatine silver print, 16.5 x 12.1 cm

Germaine Krull, Passage du Ponceau, late 1920s, 21.8 x 11.6 cm

Germaine Krull, Coats, c.1928-29, new gelatine print from glass negative, 27.2 x 24 cm

Germaine Krull, Beggar, 1920s, gelatine silver print, 20.1 x 14.2 cm

Sasha Stone, Street Hawker (Berlin), 1927-29, gelatine silver print

Anonymous press photographer, General strike during the Kapp-Putsch, Berlin 13. March 1920