A Parisienne In Chicago

Author : Madame Léon Grandin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252035135

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A Parisienne in Chicago by Madame Léon Grandin Pdf

This fascinating account of a French woman's impressions of America in the late nineteenth century reveals an unusual cross-cultural journey through fin de siècle Paris, Chicago, and New York. Madame Leon Grandin's travels and extended stay in Chicago in 1893 were the result of her husband's collaboration on the fountain sculpture for the World's Columbian Exposition. Initially impressed with the city's fast pace and architectural grandeur, Grandin's attentions were soon drawn to its social and cultural customs, reflected as observations in her writing. During a ten-month interval as a resident, she was intrigued by the interactions between men and women, mothers and their children, teachers and students, and other human relationships, especially noting the comparative social freedoms of American women. After this interval of acclimatization, the young Parisian socialite had begun to view her own culture and its less liberated mores with considerable doubt. "I had tasted the fruit of independence, of intelligent activity, and was revolted at the idea of assuming once again the passive and inferior role that awaited me!" she wrote. Grandin's curiosity and interior access to Chicago's social and domestic spaces produced an unusual travel narrative that goes beyond the usual tourist reactions and provides a valuable resource for readers interested in late nineteenth-century America, Chicago, and social commentary. Significantly, her feminine views on American life are in marked contrast to parallel reflections on the culture by male visitors from abroad. It is precisely the dual narrative of this text--the simultaneous recounting of a foreigner's impressions, and the consequent questioning of her own cultural certainties--that make her book unique. This translation includes an introductory essay by Arnold Lewis that situates Grandin's account in the larger context of European visitors to Chicago in the 1890s.

Author : J. Philip Gruen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780806147321

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Manifest Destinations by J. Philip Gruen Pdf

In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.

Author : Madame Léon Grandin,Marie Grandin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 2228908037

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Une Parisienne à Chicago by Madame Léon Grandin,Marie Grandin Pdf

Ce récit paru en 1894 et presque aussitôt oublié est un portrait de la société américaine à la fin du XIXe siècle. Dans la rue, dans les pensions où logent les Grandin, dans les soirées en ville, Marie observe les mours d'un pays encore neuf. Elle s'indigne quelquefois, s'émerveille le plus souvent ; juge les domestiques abusent de la liberté mais que les femmes en jouissent à bon droit : non seulement elles en ont plus que les Françaises, mais elles trouvent dans le Nouveau Monde des époux beaucoup plus attentionnés que dans l'Ancien. L'auteur, qui fréquente à Chicago de fortes personnalités féminines, en tirera donc les conséquences pour elle-même.

Author : Sarah Wadsworth,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558499287

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Right Here I See My Own Books by Sarah Wadsworth,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

Explores the creation and significance of an exhibit hall at the 1893 world's fair that contained more than 8,000 volumes of writings by women.

Author : Patrick T. Reardon
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780809338108

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The Loop by Patrick T. Reardon Pdf

The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago’s elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city’s economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop’s impact on the city’s development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago’s downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago’s downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago’s elevated Loop.

Author : Hélène Valance
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300224146

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Nocturne by Hélène Valance Pdf

A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow–era race relations; America’s closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.

Author : Alberto Gabriele
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137561480

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Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity by Alberto Gabriele Pdf

This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue durée, allowing readers to perceive the hidden and often unacknowledged continuities throughout a period that is often reduced to the confines of the national disciplines of literature, art, and cultural studies. Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history, sociology of literature, and visual culture, this collection offers indispensable examples of the relation between literature and several other media. Topics include the rhetorical tropes of popular culture, the material culture of clothing, the lived experience of performance as a sub-text of literature and painting, and the redefinition of spatiality and temporality in theory, art, and literature.

Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0252023056

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An Early Encounter with Tomorrow by Arnold Lewis Pdf

Chicago in the late nineteenth century was the wonder city of the Western world, its famous Loop the laboratory in which to study innovative commercial architecture. There, Old World assumptions were overthrown by New World realities, as the past was discounted, the present glorified, and the future eagerly anticipated.

Author : Lindsay DiCuirci
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812295511

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Colonial Revivals by Lindsay DiCuirci Pdf

In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of materially unsound, temporally fragmented, politically fraught, and endangered documents. Colonial Revivals traces the labors of a nineteenth-century cultural network of antiquarians, bibliophiles, amateur historians, and writers as they dug through the nation's attics and private libraries to assemble early American archives. The collection of colonial materials they thought themselves to be rescuing from oblivion were often reprinted to stave off future loss and shore up a sense of national permanence. Yet this archive proved as disorderly and incongruous as the collection of young states themselves. Instead of revealing a shared origin story, historical reprints testified to the inveterate regional, racial, doctrinal, and political fault lines in the American historical landscape. Even as old books embodied a receding past, historical reprints reflected the antebellum period's most pressing ideological crises, from religious schisms to sectionalism to territorial expansion. Organized around four colonial regional cultures that loomed large in nineteenth-century literary history—Puritan New England, Cavalier Virginia, Quaker Pennsylvania, and the Spanish Caribbean—Colonial Revivals examines the reprinted works that enshrined these historical narratives in American archives and minds for decades to come. Revived through reprinting, the obscure texts of colonial history became new again, deployed as harbingers, models, reminders, and warnings to a nineteenth-century readership increasingly fixated on the uncertain future of the nation and its material past.

Author : Marie Grandin
Publisher : Payot
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2228910589

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Une Parisienne à Chicago by Marie Grandin Pdf

La Française Marie Grandin (1864-1905) se rend aux Etats-Unis en 1892 avec son mari sculpteur, Léon, qui collabore à la réalisation d'une fontaine pour l'Exposition universelle de Chicago. Ce séjour d'un an est une découverte pour la jeune femme, au point de changer le cours de sa vie : en 1895, elle retournera définitivement dans le Nouveau Monde pour une nouvelle vie sans Léon Grandin. Son récit, injustement oublié depuis 1894, brosse un savoureux portrait de la société américaine et fait rivaliser les paysages urbains ou industriels avec les beautés naturelles. On célèbre alors le quatrième centenaire de la découverte de l'Amérique sur fond d'élections présidentielles. Dans la rue comme dans les pensions où loge le couple, dans les écoles comme dans les soirées en ville, Marie observe les moeurs d'un pays encore neuf ; elle s'indigne quelquefois mais s'émerveille le plus souvent, surtout pour constater à quel point les Américaines sont des pionnières en matière de liberté.

Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300229936

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Art Deco Chicago by Robert Bruegmann Pdf

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065835869

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCR:31210024308676

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New Books on Women, Gender and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert V. Allegrini
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738539546

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Chicago's Grand Hotels by Robert V. Allegrini Pdf

Presents a pictorial history of Chicago's grand hotels, including the Palmer House, the Drake, and the Conrad Hilton Hotel.

Author : Marie Grandin
Publisher : Éditions Payot
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9782228910729

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Une parisienne à Chicago by Marie Grandin Pdf

La Française Marie Grandin (1864-1905) se rend aux États-Unis en 1892 avec son mari Léon, sculpteur, qui collabore à la réalisation d’une fontaine pour l’Exposition universelle de Chicago. Elle observe les mœurs d’un pays encore neuf ; elle s’indigne quelquefois mais s’émerveille le plus souvent, surtout pour constater à quel point les Américaines sont des pionnières en matière de liberté. Un récit injustement oublié.