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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Second Empire"”.
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
<p>During the Second Empire (1852-1870), the world of art changed rapidly from one that had preserved many aspects of centuries old tradition, to one that developed most of the attitudes and institutions of our modern era. Universal Expositions, combining art and politics, acted as catalysts for …
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Self-fashioning, Consumption, and <em>Japonisme</em>: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s <em>Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais</em>, 1869
… and the practice of collecting in Second Empire Paris as manifest in James Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais (1869, Cincinnati Museum of Art). The painting, exhibited in the Salon of 1869, conspicuously portrays Tissot's own collection of exotic Asian collectibles …
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Ars Gallica: The Societe Nationale De Musique and Its Role in French Musical Life, 1871-1891
… an examination of French concert life during the Second Empire and in the twenty years after the Franco-Prussian War, with particular emphasis placed on the amount and types of new French music being performed by various Parisian concert organizations.
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
… considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles Baudelaire‘s theories of modernity and aesthetic history. Chapter two discusses how A.C. Swinburne translates Baudelairean modernity into an English literary perspective through Sapphic poetry, and the importance …
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Public Health and the Politics of Haussmannization in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1830-1870
<p>Throughout the Second Empire, Napoléon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Georges Haussmann, engaged in a series of urban reform projects that transformed Paris. These projects, often collectively referred to as Haussmannization, entailed the construction of boulevards, expansion of the sewer …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
… the colonies and the birth of Lord Durham's second empire. The principle argument here is that civic republican ideas made a significant impact on the reform leaders who petitioned for greater democracy. Australian and Canadian historiography has tended to view the granting of responsible …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
… the colonies and the birth of Lord Durham's second empire. The principle argument here is that civic republican ideas made a significant impact on the reform leaders who petitioned for greater democracy. Australian and Canadian historiography has tended to view the granting of responsible …
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Derriere Zola: Le corps feminin par le petit bout de la lorgnette
… sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire"" ne peut pas etre negligee, et nous examinerons donc cette ""moitie non-sociale, non-politique, non-humaine"" dans son milieu social, politique et humain, dans l'espace politique, domestique, commercial, et religieux pour voir s'il …
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… first interval extends from 1848 throughout the Second Empire and the second spans the 1870-1871 conflagration and the Third Republic. An interdisciplinary and dialogic approach reveals the exchanges between different media (literature, journalism, painting, photography) aiming to convey the …
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The Promenades of Paris. Alphand and the Urbanization of Garden Art, 1852-1871
… between 1852 and 1870, the period of the French Second Empire, to form a series of interconnecting “promenades.” It seeks to identify continuities and innovations with respect to traditions of garden art, urban art, and engineering in France. It asks how a multi-disciplinary team of public …
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The Republic and its children: French children's literature, 1855-1900
… of French children’s literature during the second half of the nineteenth century. Within the turbulence of the political changes that took place during the Second Republic, the Second Empire and the watershed events leading to the establishment of France’s Third Republic in September 1870, a …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
As France expanded its empire in North Africa, French artists, writers and explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the culture, geography and inhabitants of the new colony. This dissertation places music within the context of French colonial …
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Symphonic Culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The Bande à Franck and Beyond
… the 1800s, and particularly during the Second Empire (1852-70), opera and other forms of theatrical entertainment had dominated the French musical scene. In the final decades of the century, however, a generation of French composers devoted considerable efforts to large-scale symphonic …
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Le Naturalisme Zolien Dans Les Rougon-Macquart: Une Fatalite De La Sexualite
… the basics of the naturalistic novel in the second half of the nineteenth-century France.<br/><br/>Firstly, I have looked back at previous critical studies that were dedicated to the themes of sexuality and/or fatality in Zola's writing. This introductory chapter helped me understand how far …