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Romantic Paris - Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800–1850 (Paperback)
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Romantic Paris - Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800–1850 (Paperback)
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"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'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte and of his
nephew, Louis-Napoleon, 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 Miserables" 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.
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