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L'architecture métallique du 19ème siècle au travers de la Gare Maritime de Tour et Taxis


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L'ivre de pierres : numéro trois
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ISBN: 2862510025 9782862510026 Year: 1980 Volume: 3 Publisher: Paris Aérolande


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Les Halles de Schaerbeek
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ISBN: 2873172274 9782873172275 Year: 2004 Volume: 2 Publisher: Bruxelles : La Lettre volée : Communauté française de Belgique,

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Ce deuxième volume de la collection « Visions » consacré aux Halles de Schaerbeek explore un projet d'architecture publique dont le caractère exemplaire tient aux interventions progressives qui ont accompagné une aventure culturelle novatrice, née de la volonté d'opérateurs culturels, en marge des circuits institutionnels, de sauver un ancien marché couvert à la veille d'une destruction inéluctable. Trente ans de lutte et de chantiers successifs depuis 1973 ont permis le sauvetage et la réaffectation culturelle du lieu, tout à la fois écrin et outil de création et de diffusion multimédia. Les Halles sont aujourd'hui un lieu de programmation de spectacles vivants, de concerts, etc. internationalement reconnu, sans que son ancrage dans le quartier ne soit perdu de vue. Attestant de cette extraordinaire persévérance, nourrie tantôt par quelques-uns des meilleurs spectacles de la scène bruxelloise, tantôt par l'agitation des chantiers, nous avons conjugué dans ce livre les regards du compositeur Thierry De Mey, du sociologue Éric Corijn et du photographe Sébastien Reuzé, sans oublier le témoignage des architectes en charge de cette rénovation ingénieuse, Miriam Dubois et Jean de Salle, et des responsables de la programmation culturelle des Halles, Philippe Grombeer (1973-2002) et Annick De Ville (depuis 2002). http://www.lettrevolee.com/vision2.html


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Les Halles : Images d’un quartier

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Étudier les images des Halles pourrait conduire facilement à ... l'imagerie Pellerin tant est fort le système de représentations de la capitale. L'ambition de ce livre est d'examiner l'histoire de ces clichés en analysant les relations qu'elle entretient avec l'histoire sociale. En tout premier lieu avec l'histoire urbaine, puisqu'il s'agit de suivre les métamorphoses d'un espace urbain. Le « Ventre de Paris », se présente d'abord, et depuis plus de huit siècles, comme un centre, un lieu de carrefour et de relations, de côtoiement et d'animation ; le site exprime aussi, plus que d'autres, les contradictions d'une grande ville : les artistes dénoncent sa dangerosité et sa caducité mais s'enthousiasment pour son pittoresque. Du choc de ces deux discours naissent des histoires palpitantes dont témoignent les nombreux romans qui situent leur action dans ce décor. Mais, si le « Ventre de Paris » a inspiré les écrivains, il a moins séduit les gens d'images. Le cinéma et la télévision, pourtant aptes à magnifier les flux et le mouvement, à restituer les rythmes et les ambiances sonores, ont maintenu les Halles hors champ ou n'y ont vu que le chaos et le gaspillage, l'avers de la modernité. Seul les a passionnés le temps de la destruction et de l'abandon en plein cœur de la capitale. Ces images des Halles et alentour conduisent sur des chemins qui croisent nécessairement des disciplines diverses. Aussi cet ouvrage se joue-t-il résolument des spécialités qui, dans l'Université française, semblent aujourd'hui refaire loi.


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Dividing Paris : urban renewal and social inequality, 1852-1870
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ISBN: 069122353X Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial capitalism, endowing the old city with elegant boulevards, enhanced water supply, modern sewers, and public greenery. Esther da Costa Meyer provides a major reassessment of this ambitious project, which resulted in widespread destruction in the historic center, displacing thousands of poor residents and polarizing the urban fabric.Drawing on newspapers, memoirs, and other archival materials, da Costa Meyer explores how people from different social strata—both women and men—experienced the urban reforms implemented by the Second Empire. As hundreds of tenements were destroyed to make way for upscale apartment buildings, thousands of impoverished residents were forced to the periphery, which lacked the services enjoyed by wealthier parts of the city. Challenging the idea of Paris as the capital of modernity, da Costa Meyer shows how the city was the hub of a sprawling colonial empire extending from the Caribbean to Asia, and exposes the underlying violence that enriched it at the expense of overseas territories.This marvelously illustrated book brings to light the contributions of those who actually built and maintained the impressive infrastructure of Paris, and reveals the consequences of colonial practices for the city's cultural, economic, and political life.

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Urban renewal --- City planning --- History --- Social aspects --- Sanitation. --- Social aspects. --- 1800-1899 --- Paris (France) --- Social conditions --- Algeria. --- Amateur. --- Ambivalence. --- Annexation. --- Apprenticeship. --- Banlieue. --- Betterment. --- Boulevard du Crime. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Burial. --- Cemetery. --- Color theory. --- Commodity. --- Creative work. --- Cultivar. --- Depth of field. --- Discrimination. --- Engraving. --- Ethnic group. --- Faubourg. --- Fertilizer. --- Fontaine du Palmier. --- Fortification. --- French colonial empire. --- French intervention in Mexico. --- Generosity. --- Gentrification. --- Geologist. --- Georges-Eugène Haussmann. --- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. --- Graphic arts. --- Gustave Le Gray. --- Gérard de Nerval. --- Harassment. --- Haussmann's renovation of Paris. --- Henri Lefebvre. --- Human. --- Hygiene. --- Ideology. --- Illegal immigration. --- Imperial Ambitions. --- Imperialism. --- Infrastructure. --- Insurgency. --- Islet. --- Jacques Ignace Hittorff. --- Jean-Jacques Lequeu. --- Jean-Marie Morel. --- Jules Ferry. --- July Monarchy. --- June Revolution. --- Lac Daumesnil. --- Les Halles. --- Liberty Tree. --- Lighting. --- Louis Philippe I. --- Louis Veuillot. --- Louviers. --- Macadam. --- Modernity. --- Napoleon III. --- Napoleon. --- Northern Suburbs. --- Ourcq. --- Outsourcing. --- Paleontology. --- Pathology. --- Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta. --- Personal life. --- Picturesque. --- Principles of geology. --- Protestantism. --- Provision (accounting). --- Rationality. --- Reign. --- Revanchism. --- Rifleman. --- Rue de Rivoli. --- Sainte-Chapelle. --- Sanitary sewer. --- Sewerage. --- Sigfried Giedion. --- Slum. --- Small business. --- Social class. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Tenement. --- The Dispossessed. --- Topsoil. --- Typhoid fever. --- Urban decay. --- Urban renewal. --- Vegetation. --- Victor Hugo. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Water supply. --- Wealth.


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Art and the French commune : imagining Paris after war and revolution
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ISBN: 0691239703 030025170X Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press,

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"In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--The need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. The Commune of 1871 emerged after the Prussian war when the Paris militia chased the central government to Versailles, enabling the working class and its allies to seize control of the capital. Eventually violence engulfed the city as traditional liberals and moderates joined forces with reactionaries to restore Paris to "order"--the bourgeois order. Here Boime examines the rise of Impressionism in relation to the efforts of the reinstated conservative government to "rebuild" Paris, to return it to its Haussmannian appearance and erase all reminders of socialist threat. Boime contends that an organized impressionist movement owed its initiating impulse to its complicity with the state's program. The exuberant street scenes, spaces of leisure and entertainment, sunlit parks and gardens, the entire concourse of movement as filtered through an atmosphere of scintillating light and color constitute an effort to reclaim Paris visually and symbolically for the bourgeoisie"--Publisher's description.

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Art and state --- Art --- Impressionism (Art) --- Modernism (Art) --- Political aspects --- History --- Commune (Paris : 1871) --- 1800-1899 --- Paris (France) --- France --- Influence. --- Intellectual life --- Arc de Triomphe. --- Arnold Hauser (art historian). --- Art Journal (College Art Association journal). --- Art critic. --- Art world. --- Au Bonheur des Dames. --- Auguste Comte. --- Battle of France. --- Berthe Morisot. --- Bonapartiste. --- Boulevard des Capucines. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Camille Pissarro. --- Charles Bonnet. --- Charles Fourier. --- Class analysis. --- Claude Bernard. --- Communards. --- Comparative sociology. --- Contemporary art. --- Council of Paris. --- Courbevoie. --- Culture of France. --- Edgar Degas. --- Franco-Prussian War. --- French Algeria. --- French Army. --- French Parliament. --- French art. --- French intervention in Mexico. --- French people. --- Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure). --- Gazette des Beaux-Arts. --- Georges Clemenceau. --- Georges Seurat. --- Gustave Caillebotte. --- Gustave Courbet. --- Gustave Le Bon. --- Haussmann's renovation of Paris. --- History painting. --- House of Orléans. --- Illustration. --- Impressionism. --- James Tissot. --- Jardins. --- Jean Grave. --- Kunsthalle. --- La Commune (Paris, 1871). --- La Revue Blanche. --- Le Figaro. --- Le Gaulois. --- Le Monde. --- Le Moniteur Universel. --- Les Femmes. --- Les Halles. --- Les Temps modernes. --- Literature. --- Louis Althusser. --- Louis Blanc. --- Louis Philippe I. --- Louise Michel. --- Meyer Schapiro. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Molecule. --- Nadar (photographer). --- Napoleon III. --- Napoleon. --- New France. --- Observation. --- Organic chemistry. --- Paris Commune. --- Paul Durand-Ruel. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. --- Pierre-Auguste Renoir. --- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. --- Pontoise. --- Positivism. --- Post-structuralism. --- Prussia. --- Radical History Review. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Reform movement. --- Revanchism. --- Revue des deux Mondes. --- Rue Saint-Denis (Paris). --- Rue de Rivoli. --- Satire. --- Siege of Paris (1870–71). --- Southern France. --- T. J. Clark (art historian). --- The Civil War in France. --- The Impressionists (BBC drama). --- The Realist. --- Tuileries Palace. --- Wood engraving. --- Work of art. --- École Normale Supérieure. --- Édouard Manet.

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