Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris / Patricia A. Morton.

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Morton, P. A.

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Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris / Patricia A. Morton.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-368) and index.
Ch. 1. Le Tour du Monde en un Jour -- Ch. 2. Collecting the Colonies -- Ch. 3. Challenging the Exposition: The Anticolonial Opposition -- Ch. 4. A Taxonomy of Marginality: The Site -- Ch. 5. The Civilizing Mission of Architecture -- Ch. 6. An Architectural Physiognomy of the Colonies -- Ch. 7. National or Colonial: The Musee des Colonies.

Summary:

"The 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The Exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured goods, and arts of the global colonial empires. Yet the event gave a contradictory message of the colonies as the "Orient"--The site of rampant sensuality, decadence, and irrationality - and as the laboratory of Western rationality. In Hybrid Modernities, Patricia Morton shows how the Exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture."
"Anticolonial resistance erupted around the Exposition in the form of protests, anticolonial tracts, and a countercolonial exposition produced by the Surrealists. Thus the Exposition occupied a "middle region" of experience where the norms, rules, and systems of French colonialism both emerged and broke down, unsustainable because of their internal contradictions. As Morton shows, the effort to segregate France and her colonies failed, both at the Colonial Exposition and in greater France, because it was constantly undermined by the hybrids that modern colonialism itself produced."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0262133628 (alk. paper)
9780262133623 (alk. paper)
0262632713
9780262632713

Subject:

Paris / Exposition Coloniale Internationale <1931>
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931) Buildings.
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931) Buildings)
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931) Constructions.
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris
Exposition Coloniale Internationale 1931 Paris
Exhibition buildings France Paris History 20th century.
Expositions Constructions France Paris Histoire 20e siècle.
Buildings
Exhibition buildings
French colonies
Ausstellung
Ausstellungsbau
Kolonialismus
Wereldtentoonstellingen.
Gebouwen.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Exhibition buildings France Paris 20th century.
France Colonies Exhibitions.
France Colonies Expositions.
France Paris
Frankreich

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211131
Call No.: T805 .M6 1931
Status: Available

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