Fleeting Cities
Autor Alexander C. T. Gepperten Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 ian 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781349960965
ISBN-10: 1349960969
Pagini: 428
Ilustrații: Approx. 405 p.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:Second Edition 2013
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1349960969
Pagini: 428
Ilustrații: Approx. 405 p.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:Second Edition 2013
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. Introduction: How to Read an Exposition,- 2. Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung.- 3. Paris 1900: The Exposition universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis.- 4. London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition.- 5. Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis.- 6. Vincennes 1931: The Exposition coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity.- 7. Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium.- Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition.
Notă biografică
Alexander C. Geppert is Emmy Noether Research Group Director at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and has held fellowships in Berkeley, Paris, London, Vienna, Essen and at Harvard University. At present he is writing a book on the cultural history of outer space in the European imagination of the twentieth century.
Caracteristici
Examines the cultural impact of international exhibitions and expositions in in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Takes a transnational and transdisciplinary approach to explore how modernity was created, consumed and disputed
Provides case studies from London, Paris and Berlin
Takes a transnational and transdisciplinary approach to explore how modernity was created, consumed and disputed
Provides case studies from London, Paris and Berlin