Nineteenth-century France (nineteenth-century + france)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France by Rebecca Rogers

HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 1 2008
KIM TOLLEY
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Explaining stunting in nineteenth-century France

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
GILLES POSTEL-VINAY
We examine the share of French men with stunted growth during the nineteenth century using data on potential army conscripts. The share of stunted men (those whose height was below 1.62 metres) in France's 82 departments declined dramatically across the century, especially in the south and west. Our models examine the role of education expenditure, health care personnel, local wages, asset distribution, and a dummy variable for Paris as determinants of stunting, decomposing changes over time into the effects of levels and returns to the various explanatory variables used in the model of heights. All covariates are strongly significant, with education spending being particularly important. Our evidence clearly indicates that living in congested Paris contributed to poor health. [source]


BODILY AND PICTORIAL SURFACES: SKIN IN FRENCH ART AND MEDICINE, 1790,1860

ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2005
Mechthild Fend
This essay argues for the shared quality of skin and painting as signifying surfaces. When representing the surface of the body the artist engages with questions about the borders of the body and relations between the interior and the exterior. Portraits by Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres are considered in relation to several discursive fields: medical definitions of skin from the Enlightenment, nineteenth-century artistic anatomy and art theory. While David's rendering of skin is understood in terms of Xavier Bichat's definition of skin as a ,limite sensitive', the hermetically sealed and opaque skin of Ingres's figures negates contemporary notions of skin as a communicative membrane. Scientific knowledge notwithstanding, these very different approaches to the representation of skin may be seen as reflecting upon different ways to produce meaning as well as different conceptions of the body. Mechthild Fend is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where she is working on a project on the history and representation of skin in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Her recent books deal with the representation of masculinity: Männlichkeit im Blick. Visuelle Inszenierungen in der Kunst seit der Frühen Neuzeit (co-edited with Marianne Koos, Cologne, 2004), and Grenzen der Männlichkeit. Der Androgyn in der französischen Kunst und Kunsttheorie Zwischen Aufkl.arung und Restauration (Berlin, 2003). [source]


Jean-Charles Langlois's Panorama of Algiers (1833) and the Prospective Colonial Landscape

ART HISTORY, Issue 5 2003
John Zarobell
This article considers one of the first representations of colonial Algeria, Jean-Charles Langlois's Panorama of Algiers of 1833. It examines studies and sketches made by Langlois in Algiers, resulting from his participation in the conquest in 1830 and a later visit in 1832 in preparation for the now-destroyed panorama. Consideration of the responses of contemporary French writers illuminates their distinctions between paintings and panoramas. In arguing that the specific perceptual mechanism of the panorama assisted fantasies of domination that helped to shape France's colonial mission, this article argues that the relationship between viewer and spectacle posited by the Panorama of Algiers serves as a prototype for the representation of colonial landscape in nineteenth-century France. [source]