Scenes of Parisian Modernity
Scenes of Parisian Modernity

Author: H. Hahn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0230101933

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Integrating the history of Paris with the history of consumption, the press, publicity, advertising and spectacle, this book traces the evolution of the urban core districts of consumption and explores elements of consumer culture such as the print media, publishing, retail techniques, tourism, city marketing, fashion, illustrated posters and Montmartre culture in the nineteenth century. Hahn emphasizes the tension between art and industry and between culture and commerce, a dynamic that significantly marked urban commercial modernity that spread new imaginary about consumption. She argues that Parisian consumer culture arose earlier than generally thought, and explores the intense commercialization Paris underwent.

The City and the Senses
The City and the Senses

Author: Dr Alexander Cowan

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1409479609

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How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.

Fashion in Art
Fashion in Art

Author: Marie Simon

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2003-05-02

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780302006580

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Between 1850 and 1900 fashion in Paris became an art form in itself, its designers inspired to creations of ever greater elegance and exoticism by the examples of the Old Masters and the popular painters of the day. But as art inspired fashion, so fashion served as a muse for art: painters from Courbet to Whistler, from Manet to Vuillard borrowed the poses of their models from the fashion plates of the day, and embraced the intimate scene - a walk in the garden, a visit from a friend - so typical of the genre. The dialogue between fashion and art is illustrated here by some 120 paintings - works by Ingres, Tissot, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Seurat and Degas among them - and a clutch of hitherto unpublished photographs from the recently discovered archive of Disderi.

Fashion and Modernity
Fashion and Modernity

Author: Christopher Breward

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world.

The First World War
The First World War

Author: Susan R. Grayzel

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1319191142

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A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.