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Farewell, Revolution
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Farewell, Revolution
In 1993, Editions Fayard published Steven Laurence Kaplan's controversial history of the bicentennial commemoration of the French Revolution. Here available in English is one of the most polemical parts of that work, Kaplan's account of the contemporary debates over the meaning of the Revolution. Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789-1989 traces the impact of the historians' bitter quarrel, from Parisian academic circles to the public arenas of the bicentennial celebration.
The Glass State
From the Gothic to the contemporary, glass has transformed the structural, formal and philosophical principles of artchitecture. In The Glass State, Annette Fierro views the many meanings of transparency in architecture. Specifically, she analyzes the transparent monumental buildings that were built in Paris between 1981 and 1988 as part of Francois Mitterand's program of Grands Projets. The Grands Projets provide a rare opportunity to study a finite set of buidings constructed of similar materials, in the same time period, in a specific urban landscape, and with related ideological missions.
Naissance de l'opéra en France
Le 2 mars 1647, Mazarin fait représenter au Palais-Royal, devant Anne d’Autriche et ses enfants, le premier opéra joué en France : Orfeo, de Luigi Rossi, dans la réalisation scénique de Torelli. Le choc culturel est immense : les Français découvrent une troupe d’Italiens dans laquelle figurent des castrats, une machinerie qui permet des changements de décors et procure une illusion scénique inconnue jusqu’alors. Pour aboutir à ce résultat, que d’efforts ont été nécessaires : construire un théâtre dans le Palais-Royal, lui assurer un accès, faire actionner la machinerie complexe... En suivant la représentation acte par acte, Christian Dupavillon éclaire aussi la fonction politique d’une telle opération : en important à Paris le type de spectacle qu’il a goûté à Rome, Mazarin impose à la cour de France sa marque d’italianité. Un an plus tard, c’est la Fronde. Quelques années plus tard, Louis XIV saura se souvenir, en dansant devant la cour et en construisant Versailles, de quelle force peut être le spectacle pour illustrer le pouvoir.
The Sixties, Center Stage
Challenges the notion that the theater of the 1960s falls neatly into two categories, mainstream or experimental
The Panorama
In this book, Bernard Comment examines the wide variety of panoramas featuring both the old and the new worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker's View of Edinburgh and depictions of Paris, Moscow and Lima.
Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi's cookbook as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored examples, connects Scappi's Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the ...
