"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, formulated in the 1930s, from a variety of methodological perspectives.
"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, formulated in the 1930s, from a variety of methodological perspectives.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hollis Clayson is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA. André Dombrowski is Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski SECTION I: MODERNITY Introduction by André Dombrowski 1 Architecture's Capital? Revisiting Benjamin's Paris Charles Rice 2 How Haussmann's Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa 3 The Guillotine Sublime Marc Gotlieb 4 Victorine's Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of Commodities Paul Smith 5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874 Margaret Werth SECTION II: GEOGRAPHY Introduction by Hollis Clayson 6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb 7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts 8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang 9 White City vs. La Ville lumière: Electrical Displays at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Hélène Valance SECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson 10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet 11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis 12 Living on Manet's Balcony, or the Right to Privacy André Dombrowski 13 Mary Cassatt's Lamp Hollis Clayson Afterword Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski Further Reading Index
Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski SECTION I: MODERNITY Introduction by André Dombrowski 1 Architecture's Capital? Revisiting Benjamin's Paris Charles Rice 2 How Haussmann's Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa 3 The Guillotine Sublime Marc Gotlieb 4 Victorine's Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of Commodities Paul Smith 5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874 Margaret Werth SECTION II: GEOGRAPHY Introduction by Hollis Clayson 6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb 7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts 8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang 9 White City vs. La Ville lumière: Electrical Displays at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Hélène Valance SECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson 10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet 11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis 12 Living on Manet's Balcony, or the Right to Privacy André Dombrowski 13 Mary Cassatt's Lamp Hollis Clayson Afterword Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski Further Reading Index
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