Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900

ISBN-13: 9780367331474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 306 str.

Hollis Clayson; Andre Dombrowski

Opis

"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-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.