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Fleeting Cities
Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siècle Europe
Langbeschreibung
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.
Hauptbeschreibung
Fleeting Cities is a rich and incisive cultural history that reads imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin as interconnected sites of urban modernity
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Figures and Plates Abbreviations Acknowledgments 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 Appendix Bibliography Index
ALEXANDER C. T. 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.
ISBN-13:
9781137358325
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.11.2010
Seiten:
428
Autor:
A. Geppert
Gewicht:
645 g
Format:
235x155x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch