Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris

Morton, Patricia A.

ISBN 10: 0262133628 / ISBN 13: 9780262133623

Published by The MIT Press, 2000

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390pp., b/w illus., notes, index. Light dusting to top edge. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. GL.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262133628
• ISBN 13: 9780262133623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cultural Studies
  • French History
  • History

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Synopsis

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 for rampant sensuality, decadence and irrationality - and as the laboratory of Western rationality. This book shows how the Exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture.

About the Author

Sheldon Zink, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Program for Transplant Policy and Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. She is preparing a book about her experiencesas the ethnographer and patient advocate for the recent clinicaltrial for the total artificial heart.