Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the Gaze

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• Dr David Taylor, Toronto University & Visiting Fellow CRASSH
• Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

This paper offers a close reading of the grammar of the gaze offered in eighteenth-century prints that depict crowds of people looking at the window displays of London’s many print shops. It asks how far we can read them as accurate records of spectatorial practice, and what we can learn from the ways in which they advertise and project both their own public and their own position within the visual economy of the street in the Georgian city.

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