{"product_id":"paris-1937-worlds-on-exhibition-9780801434945","title":"Paris 1937  Worlds on Exhibition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis elegant and theoretically informed book, illustrated with forty-five photographs, explores the cultural significance of six exhibitions or new museum installations, all opening in Paris between mid-1937 and early 1938: the commercially oriented...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA critical perspective which is both specifically original and consistent with recent studies of Universal Exhibitions and of the strategic design of the modern Museum.... Even those not entirely comfortable with the ramifications of the 'unseen gods' figured in the displays of the 1930s will learn much from the detailed analysis of those representations and their intersecting semiotics and ideologies.... It is not merely its 45 fascinating archival photographs which leave one with the sense of the 'visual command'... which the author himself brings to his subject. To look at 1937 through his eyes, and then across to Eiffel's negating panoptic tower, is to ensure that the view from the Trocadero will never be quite the same again.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of European Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his thought-provoking and ambitious new book, James D. Herbert offers a penetrating analysis of... the 1937 Exposition internationale des arts et techniques and five contemporaneous museum installations and exhibitions that either complemented it or parodied it.... The strength of Herbert's study is... to demonstrate how, taken together, the exhibitions in fact presented a surprisingly cohesive and complementary series of images.... In its diligent research and thoughtful exposition across disparate fields, \u003ci\u003eParis 1937\u003c\/i\u003e is a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of modern exhibition history. Herbert's book should have an impact not just on the critical examination of installations but more broadly on how we discuss the complex relationship between images in the public sphere and the formation of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Adam Jolles * Modernism\/modernity *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert has... placed his historical narrative within a poststructuralist synthesis of his own devising that is... brilliant.... Read as a historical narrative that presents valuable insights in somewhat unexpected ways, it is enormously satisfying and deserves attention.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jerry Cullum * Art in America *","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577472127319,"sku":"9780801434945","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801434945.jpg?v=1746095453","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/paris-1937-worlds-on-exhibition-9780801434945","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}