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ISBN 10: 0230221645
ISBN 13: 9780230221642
Author: A Geppert
Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900.
1 Introduction: How to Read an Exposition
Spaces of modernity
1851 ff.
The rise of exposition studies
Modus procedendi
2 Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung
Why never in Germany?
Labor, water and the site
Pleasures of the metropolis
Wilhelm II versus Georg Simmel
3 Paris 1900: The Exposition Universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis
Queen city of expositions
Tabula rasa
Polynuclear or clou-less?
An exposition in 1911?
4 London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition
A superman in the exhibition world
Dazzling whiteness
'Flip-Flap' versus 'native villages'
Seeing national beauty
5 Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis
Setting the stage
The eighth wonder of the world
The heart of the heart of the heart
Signs of dissolution
Fact and fancy
6 Vincennes 1931: The Exposition Coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity
Paris versus Marseilles
Emplacement
Dream city
The truth about the colonies
7 Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium
Peace, progress, prosperity
Exhibition fatigue
Counter-reactions, institutional and international
Sites, cities, sights
Theorizing European exposition practices
Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition
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