http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/ Copyright 2006 Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:04 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype//?v=1.03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss later work of Gustave Caillebotte, Dans un Café (1880), helps strengthen the idea that to Caillebotte, feminine clothing was necessary solely to attract eligible women. In Dans un Café, Caillebotte's "urban stranger" while being somewhat separated from the other... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_cailleb.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_cailleb.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:04 -0500 aillebotte's Rue de Paris; temps de pluie has two great examples of French fashion in the late nineteenth century. The flâneur in the front wears square-cut dresscoat evening suit with revers that stretch to the middle of his chest. The... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_the_clo.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_the_clo.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:03 -0500 cursory glance at Gustave Caillebotte's Le Pont de l'Europe immediately catches the right-hand side's imposing iron girder as it begins its plunge diagonally into the background. Mimicking the backward motion are the lines created by the top of the... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_paintin.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_paintin.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:02 -0500 ustave Caillebotte was born on August 19, 1848 on 77 Rue de Miromelnil, Paris. He grew up in one of the wealthiest parts of nineteenth-century Paris and played as a child in many of the scenes he would later paint,... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_the_dan.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/gallery_the_dan.html Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:00:01 -0500 Martial Caillebotte: Man in a top hat. 1876. Private collection. Gustave Caillebotte: Le Dejéuner. 1876. Private collection. Gustave Caillebotte: Study of Le Pont de l'Europe. Gustave Caillebotte: Le Pont de l'Europe. 1876. Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais. Gustave Caillebotte: Rue... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/images.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/images.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:10 -0500 Broude, Norma, ed. Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Caillebotte, Gustave. Dans un café. 1880. Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts. ---. Le Dejéuner. 1876. Private collection. ---. Le Pont de... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/works_cited.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/works_cited.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:09 -0500 o why is the correlation between the inclusion of a romantically connectable woman and the increased isolation of the "urban stranger" through his clothing important? The suggestive motive behind the flâneur fashion trend, that is the increased success of feminine... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/conclusion.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/conclusion.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:08 -0500 ontinuing to Rue de Paris, Temps de Pluie (1877) we see the maximization of social isolation on the "urban stranger" in order to punish him for wearing simple masculine clothes in front of eligible women and therefore, the true motivation... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/rue_de_paris_te.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/rue_de_paris_te.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:07 -0500 he consciousness of clothing depiction on Caillebotte's "urban strangers" now established through both Le Déjeuner and the study of Le Pont de l'Europe, we continue to the complete Le Pont de l'Europe (1876), which shows Caillebotte's isolation of his "urban... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/le_pont_de_laeu.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/le_pont_de_laeu.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:06 -0500 urning now to a study of Le Pont de l'Europe (1876), the idea of conscious clothing choice is emphasized through the painting's basic elements. That the man on the right is the "urban stranger", isolated from the pair on the... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/rena_in_le_daje.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/rena_in_le_daje.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:05 -0500 ith this desire to justify the flâneur trend as a means of attracting women in mind, we turn to the paintings. Le Déjeuner (1876) is an example of a painting of an isolated man clothed in plain black clothing separated... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/le_dajeuner.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/le_dajeuner.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:04 -0500 his conflict between the two fashion forces means little without also understanding Caillebotte's place in the conflict. Caillebotte was born into a wealthy upper-class family. His father, a successful judge, died in 1873 and left his heirs, including Caillebotte, very... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/context_cailleb.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/context_cailleb.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:02 -0500 efore examining Caillebotte's paintings, the flâneur and his relationship to contemporary fashion trends in men's clothing must be established. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Britain, France's principal foreign investor, had brought a new fashion trend called "dandyism" to... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/page_one.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart20/2005/01/page_one.html Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:01 -0500