Main entry:

Marrinan, Michael.

Title & Author:

Romantic Paris : histories of a cultural landscape, 1800-1850 / Michael Marrinan.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.

Description:

xviii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Parts of chapters 1 through 7 of the present work appeared in a different version in The art and spirit of Paris, vol. 1, pp. 675-867"--Title page verso.
"Parts of chapters 1 through 7 of the present work appeared in a different version in The art and spirit of Paris, vol. 1, pp. 675-867"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-451) and index.
Introduction -- The moods of Post-Revolution Paris -- The city as witness and battlefield -- Writing history on the cityscape -- Spoils of victory : the first Grand Louvre -- A city beautiful : the munificence of rule -- Contested spaces : the politics of urban memory -- Old stones and ruminations -- The Musée des Monuments français -- The troubadour view of the past -- Living with power : Joséphine to Marie d'Orléans -- The Gothic Revival -- An aesthetics of confrontation -- The thrill of violence -- The exotic other -- The other France -- The Art scene -- Staying in : the culture and cliques of Paris salons -- Going out : Hernani and the demise of classical theater -- Virtuosi : the imagery of genius -- A new Paris -- From street to Passage -- Remapping the urban fabric -- The spectacle of city life -- The city as stage -- The self in motion -- Art and industry -- Architecture and commerce -- Affordable luxuries -- Re-producing art -- Images of the everyday -- Daguerre's moment -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"Romantic Paris is a richly illustrated survey of cultural life in Paris during some of the most tumultuous decades of the city's history. Between the coups d'état of Napoléon Bonaparte and of his nephew, Louis-Napoléon, Paris weathered extremes of political and economic fortune. Once the shining capital of a pan-European empire, it was overrun by foreign armies. Projects for grand public works were delayed and derailed by plague, armed uprisings, and civil war. At the same time, Paris was the theater of a revolution in the arts that challenged classical culture by depicting the vagaries of contemporary life and the thrill of unbridled experimentation. "Romantic Paris" produced Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and Courbet's Burial at Ornans. It was both the setting and inspiration for Hugo's Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable set new standards for operatic productions, and audiences thrilled to the virtuoso performances of Paganini and Liszt, Talma and Taglioni. Established patterns of living, eating, dressing, and sociability were retooled for new urban spaces, new modes of personal mobility, and new forms of public self-presentation. The cultural legacy of Romantic Paris includes a museum that shelters fragments rescued from the rubble of the Revolution, as well as the display of masterpieces, open to one and all, that we visit today as the Louvre. In addition, this period contributed an architectural legacy that now gives Paris its distinct and world-renowned reputation as a cultural and artistic center. In Romantic Paris, Michael Marrinan plots the zigzag trajectory of the monuments, spaces, and habits of a city that looks both to the past and the future with all the optimism, self-doubts, and creative energy of a culture poised at the threshold of modernity."--Book cover.

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ISBN:

9780804750622 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804750629 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804761512 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0804761515 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts and society France Paris History 19th century.
Arts, French France Paris 19th century.
Arts et société France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
Arts français France Paris 19e siècle.
Arts and society
Arts, French
Civilization
Kultur
Kunst
Cultuur.
Romantiek.
Konst och samhälle historia Frankrike Paris 1800-talet.
Paris (France) Civilization 19th century.
France Paris
Paris
Parijs.
Gesellschaft
Geschichte <1800-1850>
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261929
Call No.: BIB 192975
Status: Available