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Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction: How to Read an Exposition,- 2. Berlin 1896: Wilhelm II, Georg Simmel, and the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung.- 3. Paris 1900: The Exposition universelle as a Century's Protean Synthesis.- 4. London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition.- 5. Wembley 1924: The British Empire Exhibition as a Suburban Metropolis.- 6. Vincennes 1931: The Exposition coloniale as the Apotheosis of Imperial Modernity.- 7. Conclusion: Exhibition Fatigue, or the Rise and Fall of a Mass Medium.- Coda: Pictures at an Exhibition.