基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1998. By emphasising the importance of shops and shopping, this book casts new light on French visual culture of the 1920s as well as on the role of gender in formulations of early twentieth-century modernity.
Full Description
Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the 19th century". At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on show. This text focuses on the Exhibition as a set of contesting representations of the modern city, stressing the importance of consumption and display for concepts of urban modernity. Here Le Corbusier's "Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau" with its "Plan Voisin" for the redesign of Paris confronted another equally up-to-date city - Paris "a woman's city", world centre of fashion and shopping. Taking as her starting point one of the most dramatic 1925 exhibits, the Rue des Boutiques which spanned the river Seine, the author analyzes the contemporary significance of the small Parisian luxury shop. She demonstrates how boutiques, conceived both as urbanism and as advertising, redefined Paris as the modern city.
Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Illusory cities
Villes Lumieres
La boutique and the face of modern Paris
The art of the shop window
Cars and jars: L'Esprit Nouveau and a geometry of the city
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index
