Everyday life in motion: the art of walking in late-nineteenth-century Paris.(architecture)(Critical Essay)

The Art Bulletin | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

 
Ambulare, postea laborare. 
--Edgar Degas to Bartholome, [1883] (1)

Always a city for walking, Paris became much more conspicuously so during the second half of the nineteenth century, as Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's urban reconstruction program of the 1850s and 1860s opened up boulevards, bridges, squares, and other public spaces to traffic and to view. (2) With both its viability and its visibility improved by that spatial reordering, walking emerged as a significant pictorial theme in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Paris. In recording the altered look of the ...

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