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Book Promenade    travers l Exposition universelle   Sign

Download or read book Promenade travers l Exposition universelle Sign written by Edmond Villetard (Charles-Edmond.) and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Promenade a Travers L exposition Coloniale Internationale

Download or read book Promenade a Travers L exposition Coloniale Internationale written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ephemeral vistas

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  • Author : Paul Greenhalgh
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 1526123657
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Ephemeral vistas written by Paul Greenhalgh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international exhibitions held around the world between 1851 and 1939 were spectacular gestures, which briefly held the attention of the world before disappearing into an abrupt oblivion, of the victims of their planned temporality. Known in Britain as Great Exhibitions, in France as Expositions Universelles and in America as World's Fairs, the genre became a self-perpetuating phenomenon, the extraordinary cultural spawn of industry and empire. Thoroughly in the spirit of the first industrial age, the exhibitions illustrated the relation between money and power, and revelled in the belief that the uncontrolled expression of that power was the quintessence of freedom. Philanthropy found its place on exhibition sites functioning as a conscience to the age although even here morality was inextricably linked to economic efficiency and expansion. Imperial achievement was celebrated to the full at international exhibitions. Nevertheless, most World's Fairs maintained an imperial element and out of this blossomed a vibrant racism. Between 1889 and 1914, the exhibitions became a human showcase, when people from all over the world were brought to sites in order to be seen by others for their gratification and education. In essence, the English national profile fabricated in the closing decades of the nineteenth century was derived from the pre-industrial world. The Fine Arts were an important ingredient in any international exhibition of calibre. This book incorporates comparative work on European and American empire-building, with the chronological focus primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when these cultural exchanges were most powerfully at work.

Book Races on Display

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  • Author : Dana S. Hale
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2008-03-27
  • ISBN : 0253000149
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Races on Display written by Dana S. Hale and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was highly profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their racial identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters. The French did not create the identity-effacing stereotypes of Africans, Arabs, and Indochinese. Instead they refined or remolded these images, and as they did so they redefined and remolded their images of themselves. Focusing on world's fairs, colonial expositions, and mundane manufacturers' trademarks, Races on Display shows not only the prevalence of racial stereotypes, but also how complex these representations prove to be.

Book Spectacular Politics

Download or read book Spectacular Politics written by Matthew Truesdell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elected President of the Second Republic in 1848, the year of the inception of universal male suffrage, this nephew of Napoleon I overthrew that Republic in 1851 to establish himself as Emperor Napoleon III, a title he kept for almost twenty years.

Book Fleeting Cities

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  • Author : A. Geppert
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2010-11-03
  • ISBN : 0230281834
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Fleeting Cities written by A. Geppert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.

Book French Realism

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  • Author : Bernard Weinberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book French Realism written by Bernard Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Touring Beyond the Nation  A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History

Download or read book Touring Beyond the Nation A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History written by Eric G.E. Zuelow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The farther they venture, the more unique the cultures they gaze upon, the greater the prestige accrued; cross-cultural contact is commonplace. Yet despite the obviously transnational character of the tourist experience, national borders define existing studies of tourism. Spanish, French, or German tourism is treated almost in isolation and there are only hints of a larger transnational impetus behind the creation of national tourism products. This volume tells a different story. Although modern tourism first evolved in Europe changes were never confined to national borders. The Grand Tour, the birthplace of modern tourism, was consummately transnational in both its execution and its influence. Although seaside resorts originated in Britain, the aesthetic and scientific ideas that made beaches desirable emerged through conversation among Dutch painters, English travellers, and both British and Continental scientists and philosophers. When travel was finally available to the masses, Irish tourism advocates looked to England, Continental Europe, and America for ideas. The Nazi leisure organization, Strength through Joy (KdF), was based on an earlier Italian model, the Dopolavoro. World's Fair promoters raided previous fairs in other countries for ideas. European-wide demand and taste helped shape nudist practice in France and beyond. At every turn, practices and products developed because tourism lent itself to trans-national discourse. The contributors examine a wide range of topics that together make a powerful argument for the adoption of a new transnational model for understanding modern tourism. An essential addition to the library of academics studying the history of tourism, popular culture and leisure in Europe, the book will also provide interest to scholars of transnational topics, including Europeanization and globalization.

Book French Realism  the Critical Reaction  1830 1870

Download or read book French Realism the Critical Reaction 1830 1870 written by Bernard Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 748 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture of Instruction and Delight

Download or read book Architecture of Instruction and Delight written by Pieter van Wesemael and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Facing the Other

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  • Author : Charles Cordier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Facing the Other written by Charles Cordier and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Second Empire in France, Cordier received several assignments in North Africa and there he completed scientific busts that were just as much works of art. His busts in silver or gilt bronze, onyx and coloured marble are delicate gems, reflecting Cordier's interest in other civilizations, most notably African. The Musee d'Orsay in Paris has organized an unprecedented international exhibition of Cordier's work, highlighting seventy-five sculptures and approximately forty ethnographic photographs. Filled with several texts on his life and work compiled by the exhibition's organizers, this book was created and based on the research by Jeanine Durand-Revillon for the Ecole du Louvre in 1980.

Book Soleil Noir

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  • Author : Jennifer Anne Boittin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Soleil Noir written by Jennifer Anne Boittin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Punch

Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hybrid Modernities

Download or read book Hybrid Modernities written by P. A. Morton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris created hybrids of French and colonial culture.

Book The Modernist Garden in France

Download or read book The Modernist Garden in France written by Dorothée Imbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modernist garden, which flourished in France between the 1910s and the 1930s, vividly mirrored the geometries and cubist aesthetics familiar to the decorative and fine arts of the period. Created by architects and artists, these gardens were often conceived as tableaux in which plants played a role only as pigment or texture. This handsomely illustrated book by Dorothée Imbert presents for the first time - in word and image - a comprehensive study of these arresting architectonic gardens.

Book Postcolonialism

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  • Author : Robert J. C. Young
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2016-10-17
  • ISBN : 1405120940
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Postcolonialism written by Robert J. C. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topic Details the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia Analyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and cultures Offers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students