Designs on Modernity (2003)

Tag Gronberg

Year:	2003
Authors:	Tag Gronberg
Publishers:	Manchester University Press
Pages:	196
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

Tag Gronberg here presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in updating the image of Paris as 'capital of the 19th century'. He focuses on the Exhibition as a set of contesting representations of the modern city, stressing the importance of consumption and display for concepts of urban modernity.