Illuminated Paris

Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle poque

Hollis Clayson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-59386-9 (ISBN)

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The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian nightlife. Though we reflect longingly on such scenes, in Illuminated Paris, Hollis Clayson shows that there's more to these clich s than meets the eye. In this richly illustrated book, she traces the dramatic evolution of lighting in Paris and how artists responded to the shifting visual and cultural scenes that resulted from these technologies. While older gas lighting produced a haze of orange, new electric lighting was hardly an improvement: the glare of experimental arc lights--themselves dangerous--left figures looking pale and ghoulish. As Clayson shows, artists' representations of these new colors and shapes reveal turn-of-the-century concerns about modernization as electric lighting came to represent the harsh glare of rapidly accelerating social change. At the same time, in part thanks to American artists visiting the city, these works of art also produced our enduring romantic view of Parisian glamour and its Belle poque.

Hollis Clayson is professor of art history and the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	75 color plates, 32 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-226-59386-X / 022659386X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-59386-9 / 9780226593869
Zustand	Neuware