Karen Newman demonstrates that speculation and capital, the commodity, the crowd, traffic, and the street, often thought to be historically specific to nineteenth-century urban culture, were in fact already at work in early modern London and Paris. Newman challenges the notion o…
In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fas…
Werk uit de jaren rond 1900 uit de ateliers van de Franse kunsthandelaar en -fabrikant Siegfried Bing (1838-1905).
Bibliografie : p. 349-377. - Met reg. Description of the evolution between 1750 and 1850 from talking audience to listening audience at concerts. Each section opens with a chapter recreating the physical and psychological atmosphere of the hall from the spectator's point of view.
"From the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron Paul Thiry Holbach was an epicenter of debate, intellectual daring, and revolutionary ideas ... Brilliant minds full of wit, courage, and humanity in their thinking created a different and radical French Enlightenment based …
All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture and sophistication that only Paris could offer. Yet their b…