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In Poultry Market at Gisors (1885), Camille Pissarro surveys the marketplace of this Normandy town, studying the commercial hustle and bustle of the scene. He depicts an ensemble of vendors surrounded by a sprawling market crowd, placing these purveyors at the center of countrys…

My dissertation examines visual and aural marketing practices used by merchants in the suqs (marketplaces) of Damascus, Syria. In the busy and cramped spaces of the city's large marketplaces, where a range of factors makes for intense economic competition, merchants must enact a…