Friday, September 9, 2011

Chapter 10, The Flaneur Phenomenon

"I cannot express how much I want [the streets] ... It seems as if they supplied something to my brain which it cannot bear, when busy, to lose ... My figures seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them." -Charles Dickens

Honore Daumier, illustrator, 1841, French
Daumier, 1834

Charles Baudelaire, b. 1821- d. 1867, French
1886, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Constantin Guys, b. 1802 - d. 1892, French
Edouard Manet, b. 1832 - d. 1883, French
1864, The Races at Longchamp by Manet
1878, Cafe Concert by Manet, oil painting
Edgar Degas, b. 1834 - d. 1917, French
1872, Musicians in the Orchestra by Degas, oil painting
1875, Place de la Concorde by Degas, oil painting
Edgar Allen Poe photographed circa 1849, b. 1809 - d. 1849, American

Link here for Poe's "A Man In The Crowd" posted on The Literature Network.

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