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Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. A wintry masculinity: Art, soldiering, and gendered space in Paris under siege Hollis Clayson. Clairin The young men of the Second Empire were not prepared for becoming soldiers. For these reasons, and because I accentuate the constituent "ingredients" and structure of the oral presentation, you will encounter the two constants of art historical interpretationβthe empirical and the theoreticalβin exceedingly naked and occasionally unblended form.
On the practical, factual side, I investigate the experiences of male French artists who became soldiers in Paris during the Franco-Prussian war, and how the art works they managed to produce during the Siege of the winter of articulated and mediated their singular experiences of the war. I also touch on the lives and outlooks of civilians in the invested capital city male and female alike, but stressing the women , their negotiations of the wartime upheavals in their everyday lives, and their image in visual representation.
The reference to "imagery" automatically invokes the agency of the soldier artists and leads directly to the matter of the interplay between cultural forms and self-definition via representation during the Franco-Prussian war. These issues are addressed in what follows, an attempt to define and illuminate specific sets of relations that temporarily held sway among modernity, subjectivity, representation, and space in The topic of soldier artists working in Paris during the Siege sparked my interest in theories of space and identity, a rapidly growing area of "theory," especially in studies of the erotics of contemporary social life appearing from geography but also urban and cultural studies Bell and Valentine; Keith and Pile; Orwicz; Sheringham; and Vidler.
An interest in space and identity, however, is not without precedent in earlier studies of nineteenth-century French art. I am thinking, for example, of work done in the wake of Griselda Pollock's, "Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity," an influential essay that categorically challenged both recent and older "classic" studies of the experience of modern Paris defined in terms of an unacknowledged Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. Published by license under the Gordon and Breach Publishers imprint.
