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Author | : James D. Herbert |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total 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.
Author | : James D. Herbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
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ISBN | : 9780756771867 |
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Explores the cultural significance of 6 exhibitions or new museum installations, all opening in Paris between mid-1937 and early 1938: the commercially oriented world's fair titled L'Expo. Internationale des Arts et Techniques; the historical Musee des Monuments Francais; the ethnographic Musee de l'Homme; two massive art retrospectives; and L'Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme. They competed with and yet also complemented one another in visually rendering the full scope of human accomplishment through time and across the globe. The exhibitions developed a particular sense of French nat. identity that would present a vivid contrast to the growing German nationalism of the third Reich. A pioneering text in the field of visual studies. 45 B&W photos.
Author | : Karen Fiss |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0226252019 |
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Franco-German cultural exchange reached its height at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair, where the Third Reich worked to promote an illusion of friendship between the two countries. Through the prism of this decisive event, Grand Illusion examines the overlooked relationships among Nazi elites and French intellectuals. Their interaction, Karen Fiss argues, profoundly influenced cultural production and normalized aspects of fascist ideology in 1930s France, laying the groundwork for the country’s eventual collaboration with its German occupiers. Tracing related developments across fine arts, film, architecture, and mass pageantry, Fiss illuminates the role of National Socialist propaganda in the French decision to ignore Hitler’s war preparations and pursue an untenable policy of appeasement. France’s receptiveness toward Nazi culture, Fiss contends, was rooted in its troubled identity and deep-seated insecurities. With their government in crisis, French intellectuals from both the left and the right demanded a new national culture that could rival those of the totalitarian states. By examining how this cultural exchange shifted toward political collaboration, Grand Illusion casts new light on the power of art to influence history.
Author | : Frédéric Mayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1937 |
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Author | : Villemot Bouissoud |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1937* |
Genre | : Exposition internationale |
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Author | : Tom Weidlinger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2019-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1943006970 |
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The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.
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Release | : 2016 |
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Download Paris 1937 Exposition Via French Line Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Description: French Line guide to Paris exhibition, discussing the buildings, exhibits, and travel arrangements, and including a map of Paris as the centerfold.
Author | : Rebecca Rogers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135176733X |
Download Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876–1937 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming women for the history of world fairs (1876-1937), it also seeks to introduce new voices into these studies, dialoguing across disciplinary and national historiographies. From the outset, women participated not only as spectators, but also as artists, writers, educators, artisans and workers, without figuring among the organizers of international exhibitions until the 20th century. Their presence became more pointedly acknowledged as feminist movements developed within the Western World and specific spaces dedicated to women’s achievements emerged. International exhibitions emerged as showcases of "modernity" and "progress," but also as windows onto the foreign, the different, the unexpected and the spectacular. As public rituals of celebration, they transposed national ceremonies and protests onto an international stage. For spectators, exhibitions brought the world home; for organizers, the entire world was a fair. Women were actors and writers of the fair narrative, although acknowledgment of their contribution was uneven and often ephemeral. Uncovering such silence highlights how gendered the triumphant history of modernity was, and reveals the ways women as a category engaged with modern life within that quintessential modern space—the world fair.
Author | : Dr Vladimir Paperny |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-11-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1472434609 |
Download Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and ’59. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank. The book provides a novel assessment of modern architecture’s involvement with national representation it also argues that this widespread confidence in architecture’s ability to act as a propaganda tool was one of the reasons why Modernist architecture lent itself to the service of such different masters.
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Art |
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