imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
Edición de la obra Fleeting Cities
| Autor | Alexander C. T. Geppert |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Lugar | Basingstoke, New York, NY |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 398 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230221642 |
| OCLC | 308174810, 698957425 |
| LCCN | 2010012004, 2014415520 |
| Número de Cutter | G353f |
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.