Paris and Panoramic Vision: Lieux de Memoire, Lieux Communs
Titel:
Paris and Panoramic Vision: Lieux de Memoire, Lieux Communs
Auteur:
Stephens, Sonya
Verschenen in:
Modern & contemporary France
Paginering:
Jaargang 14 (2006) nr. 2 pagina's 173-187
Jaar:
2006-05
Inhoud:
From the totalizing perspectives of the panorama to metonymic fragments of a monumental Paris, what is celebrated is representational tradition and innovation. In an ongoing representation of Paris cityscapes, pictorialism of the nineteenth century offers an insight into (and an example of) what has come to be known as lieux de memoire, while at the same time questioning the legacy through an interrogation of lieux communs. Through painting and photography in the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth centuries, this article addresses legacies in pictorialism, both in and of the nineteenth century, exploring how this pictorial legacy is interpreted and develops and how, in Hamon's terms, images of Paris increasingly propose 'des referents “en raccourci”'. The partiality of the representation (in both senses of the term) is evidence both of the cultural prevalence of the legacy and of its potential for reinterpretation.
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