Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris

by Caillebotte, Gustave; Broude, Norma

• ISBN13: 9780813530185
• ISBN10: 0813530180
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Over the last decades, Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), a long-neglected painter associated with the French Impressionists, has suddenly become the subject of intense public interest and renewed scholarly debate. With a series of important exhibitions recently showcasing his work, Caillebotte's enigmatic paintings have begun to exert an unexpected fascination for postmodern audiences, and they have become rich sites for interpretive debate.

The essays that comprise this volume exemplify the best aspects of recent Caillebotte scholarship. They employ a variety of perspectives to examine the ways in which his art sheds light on the formation of individual and class identities in Paris during the early years of the Third Republic -- an era of transition marked by the burgeoning of capitalism and the instabilities of newly shifting gender roles in the modern world.

Addressing a wide range of major paintings by Caillebotte, the contributors reveal the compound ways in which the artist encoded his images and the multiple interpretations to which these images are

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(7)
Norma Broude
Caillebotte's Pont de l'Europe: A New Slant	8	(13)
J. Kirk T. Varnedoe
Caillebotte as Professional Painter: From Studio to the Public Eye	21	(45)
Michael Marrinan
Caillebotte's Impressionism	66	(51)
Michael Fried
Outing Impressionism: Homosexuality and Homosocial Bonding in the Work of Caillebotte and Bazille	117	(58)
Norma Broude
Masculinity, Muscularity, and Modernity in Caillebotte's Male Figures	175	(22)
Tamar Garb
Caillebotte's Still Lifes	197	(28)
Douglas W. Druick
Index	225