Visual culture and the figure of the spectator: on the beginnings of literature without ceremony
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Art & Literature, Visual culture, Literature of modernity, Charles Baudelaire.
Abstract
Throughout the nineteenth century European visual culture undergoes a radical transformation. The citizen can perform a wide range of unknown sensory experiences thanks to new practices of bourgeois entertainment and has sophisticated technological devices for the reproduction of images. The image reaches a new ubiquity –from the artistic and recreational to the scientific and the commercial– which requires an observer very different from the classic audience of the aesthetic contemplation. This article analyses, from the art criticism and the literary creation of Baudelaire, how aesthetic modernity is born with this new figure of the spectator.Downloads
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2014-07-31
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Matas Pons À. (2014). Visual culture and the figure of the spectator: on the beginnings of literature without ceremony. Escritura e Imagen, 10, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2014.v10.46403
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