Expositions

Expositions
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0520073258
ISBN-13 : 9780520073258
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Book Synopsis Expositions by : Philippe Hamon

Download or read book Expositions written by Philippe Hamon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Expositions explores the spatial and cultural logic of Haussmann's sweeping Paris boulevards, classic novels by Balzac and Zola, the Bon March� department store, and the poetry of Baudelaire.


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