Article: Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris After War and Revolution.

In Caillebotte's Jeune homme a sa fenetre (1876), one usually sees a voyeuristic scenario framed by urban geometry and complicated by the inverted symmetries of spatial designs. Through Albert Boime's critical grid, however, its confident observer is 'gazing through the window at the scattered carriages and passers-by like a military officer surveying the enemy's position from a remote hilltop'; its well-dressed woman passively crossing the field of vision, 'constructed in opposition to the militant female warrior of the Commune', serves to restore a patriarchal order in this 'unabashedly authoritarian' picture (pp. 89-91). In other words, over and beyond analysing specific ...

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