Designs on modernity presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in the attempts to update the image of Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century'. At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoatifs et Industriels Modernes, the city of Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on show. No mere backdrop, the French capital was deployed as a framing device for the goods displayed. Tag Gronberg focuses on the Exhibition as a set of contesting representations of the modern city, stressing the importance of consumption and displayed for concepts of urban modernity. Here, Le...
Designs on modernity presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in the attempts to update the image of Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth centu...