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University of Chicago Press Illuminated Paris – Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque

Name: Illuminated Paris - Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque
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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.

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Brand: University of Chicago Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 022659386X
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Engineering & Technology > Reference > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 May 2019
Listed Since: 04 September 2018

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