Date: 2010
Type: Book
Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
GEPPERT, Alexander C.T., Fleeting cities : imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29166
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world-wide web. Conceptualizing exhibitions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities undertakes a transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed within the European metropolis. Focusing on five such expositions – the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung (1896), the fifth Parisian Exposition Universelle (1900), the Franco-British Exhibition in London (1908), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924/25), and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris (1931) – this award-winning book examines their specific aims and aspirations, evolving forms and execution, and the public debates they engendered. Who shaped these mega-events, how were exposition venues inscribed into the urban fabric, what legacies did they bequeath? Taken as dense textures stretched over time, these expositions undergo both a close hermeneutic reading and broad spatial analysis. Fleeting Cities weaves extensive empirical research with underlying theoretical concerns, investigating their individual meanings in a new form of transnational network analysis.
Table of Contents:
-- 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
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29166
Full-text via DOI: 10.1057/9780230281837
ISBN: 9780230221642; 9781137358325
Publisher: Palgrave
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5764
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004
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