Is Paris still the capital of the nineteenth century? : essays on art and modernity, 1850-1900 / edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: xviii, 306 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367331474 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Aesthetics | Modernism (Art) -- France -- Paris | Art and Design | Art and Design | Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 700.4'112 Summary: Is Paris still the capital of the 19th century? The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of 19th 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.
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"An Ashgate book"--Front cover.
Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is Paris still the capital of the 19th century? The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of 19th 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.
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