Paris 1937

Paris 1937
Title Paris 1937 PDF eBook
Author James D. Herbert
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 224
Release 2018-10-18
Genre Art
ISBN 1501720775

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This elegant and theoretically informed book, illustrated with forty-five photographs, explores the cultural significance of six exhibitions or new museum installations, all opening in Paris between mid-1937 and early 1938: the commercially oriented world's fair titled L'Exposition Internationale des Art et Techniques; the historical Musée des Monuments Français; the ethnographic Musée de l'Homme; two massive art retrospectives, one sponsored by the state of France and the other by the municipality of Paris; and L'Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme.James D. Herbert capitalizes on the proximity of these disparate exhibits to show how they competed with and yet also complemented one another in visually rendering the full scope of human accomplishment through time and across the globe. In this task, Herbert argues, they both succeeded and failed in interesting and productive ways. He asserts that the exhibitions projected and, in a sense, created (created precisely through the act of projection) the real world that they ostensibly only represented.In fact, Herbert argues, the exhibitions developed a particular sense of French national identity—one that, in managing to be at the same moment both inwardly focused and beneficently expansive, would present a vivid contrast to the growing German nationalism of the Third Reich. His epilogue takes a final look at these issues from the perspective of Jean Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée. A ground-breaking work in cultural history, Paris 1937, with its insightful examination of objects from a variety of fields, is a pioneering text in the field of visual studies.

Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 ... February 28, 1901

Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 ... February 28, 1901
Title Report of the Commissioner-general for the United States to the International Universal Exposition, Paris, 1900 ... February 28, 1901 PDF eBook
Author United States. Commission to the Paris Exposition
Publisher
Pages 516
Release 1901
Genre Exposition universelle
ISBN

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Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair

Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair
Title Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair PDF eBook
Author Annegret Fauser
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 417
Release 2005
Genre Music
ISBN 1580461859

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The 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris is famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. This book explores the ways in which music was used, exhibited, listened to, and written about during the Exposition universelle. It also reveals the sociopolitical uses of music in France during the 19th century.

Paris 1889

Paris 1889
Title Paris 1889 PDF eBook
Author Annette Blaugrund
Publisher ABRAMS
Pages 312
Release 1989
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Describes the historical background of the Universal Exposition and offers brief profiles of the American artists who exhibited there.

Universal Exposition Paris

Universal Exposition Paris
Title Universal Exposition Paris PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1376
Release 1891
Genre
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World of Fairs

World of Fairs
Title World of Fairs PDF eBook
Author Robert W. Rydell
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 281
Release 1993-11
Genre History
ISBN 0226732371

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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.

Eiffel's Tower

Eiffel's Tower
Title Eiffel's Tower PDF eBook
Author Jill Jonnes
Publisher Penguin
Pages 412
Release 2009-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1101052511

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The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Eiffel's Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.