Is Paris still the capital of the nineteenth century? : essays on art and modernity, 1850-1900

Is Paris still the capital of the nineteenth century? : essays on art and modernity, 1850-1900 / edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski.

"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist aesthetics. Thirteen scholars test Benjamin's ideas about the centrality of Paris, fo...

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Other Authors: Clayson, Hollis, 1946- (Editor), Dombrowski, André (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > Aesthetics.
Modernism (Art) > France > Paris.
Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Holy Cross Note:"First issued in paperback, 2018" -- Title page verso.
Table of Contents:
  • Modernity. Architecture's capital? : Revisiting Benjamin's Paris / Charles Rice
  • How Haussmann's hegemony haunted the early third republic / Peter Soppelsa
  • The guillotine sublime / Marc Gotlieb
  • Victorine's secret : Baudelaire and the ambiguity of commodities / Paul Smith
  • A laughter of the look : Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the salon jury in 1874 / Margaret Werth
  • Geography. Revisiting the 1860s : race and place in Cape Town and Paris / Tamar Garb
  • Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman aesthecisim / Mary Roberts
  • Paris, Japan, and modernity : a vexed ratio / Ting Chang
  • White City vs. La Ville Lumière : electrical displays at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) / Hélène Valance
  • Circulation. Manet and the multiple / Anne Higonnet
  • Gesture, pose, practice : Charles Nègre and the image of instantaneity / Jacob W. Lewis
  • Living on Manet's Balcony, or the right to privacy / André Dombrowski
  • Mary Cassatt's lamp / Hollis Clayson.

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