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Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe de Alexander C.T. Geppert

Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Autor Alexander C.T. Geppert
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 aug 2024
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349960965
ISBN-10: 1349960969
Ilustrații: Approx. 405 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Ediția:2nd ed. 2024
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția 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