Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris / Patricia A. Morton. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, P. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931)--Buildings.

Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris.

Exhibition buildings--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Exhibition buildings.

France--Colonies--Exhibitions.

France.

Exhibition buildings--History--20th century--France--Paris.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 380 p. ) ill., maps, plans ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The Exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured goods, and arts of the global colonial empires. Yet the event gave a contradictory message of the colonies as the "Orient"--The site of rampant sensuality, decadence, and irrationality - and as the laboratory of Western rationality. In Hybrid Modernities, Patricia Morton shows how the Exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture."

"Anticolonial resistance erupted around the Exposition in the form of protests, anticolonial tracts, and a countercolonial exposition produced by the Surrealists. Thus the Exposition occupied a "middle region" of experience where the norms, rules, and systems of French colonialism both emerged and broke down, unsustainable because of their internal contradictions. As Morton shows, the effort to segregate France and her colonies failed, both at the Colonial Exposition and in greater France, because it was constantly undermined by the hybrids that modern colonialism itself produced."--Jacket.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Le Tour du Monde en un Jour

Ch. 2. Collecting the Colonies

Ch. 3. Challenging the Exposition: The Anticolonial Opposition

Ch. 4. A Taxonomy of Marginality: The Site

Ch. 5. The Civilizing Mission of Architecture

Ch. 6. An Architectural Physiognomy of the Colonies

Ch. 7. National or Colonial: The Musee des Colonies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-368) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-262-28025-6

0-585-38135-6