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title	:	When the Eiffel Tower Was New : French Visions of Progress At the Centennial of the Revolution
author	:	Levin, Miriam R.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870236733
print isbn13	:	9780870236730
ebook isbn13	:	9780585251769
language	:	English
subject	Exposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France)--Exhibitions, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Anniversaries, etc.--Exhibitions, Exposition universelle internationale de 1900--(Paris, France)--Exhibitions, Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)--Exhibitions,
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	DC715.L473 1989eb
ddc	:	944/.361
subject	:	Exposition universelle de 1889--(Paris, France)--Exhibitions, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Anniversaries, etc.--Exhibitions, Exposition universelle internationale de 1900--(Paris, France)--Exhibitions, Tour Eiffel (Paris, France)--Exhibitions,

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Page iii When the Eiffel Tower Was New French Visions of Progress at the Centennial of the Revolution Miriam R. Levin with an Introduction by Gabriel P. Weisberg Mount Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, Massachusetts DISTRIBUTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS

Page iv Copyright The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-063428 ISBN 0-87023-673-3 The exhibition has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and is an official project of the American Committee on the French Revolution, 1789-1989. The publication of this catalogue has been supported by the Susan Davenport Page and Margaret Page Fales Fund and the Lucy P. Eisenhart Fund. Editor: Elise K. Kenney Designer: Elizabeth Pols Composition: Dix Type Inc. Printer: Eastern Press, New Haven Exhibition tour: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, Massachusetts 9 April-18 June 1989 Davison Art Center Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut 25 October-2 December 1989 The MIT Museum Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 9 January-25 February 1990 Photograph credits Landis Photography: plates 6, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 35, and 79. David Stansbury Photography: plates 1, 4, 19, 33, 46, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 64, 66, and 80. Victor's Photography: plates 7, 8, 12, 27, 31, 52, and 53. Cover: H. Sicard, printer, Embrasement de la Tour Eiffel, 1889, Phillip Dennis Cate and Family Title page: Detail from Panorama of 1889 Exposition, from the Magasin du Printemps, 1889, Phillip Dennis Cate and Family.

Page v Preface The Eiffel Tower, that universal symbol of the city of Paris, was originally designed as the gateway to the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Organized to mark the centenary of the French Revolution, the fair high-lighted the enormous technological innovations and societal changes that had occurred over the previous hundred years. The current exhibition is meant to celebrate and investigate the meaning of those changes and their impact on the subsequent history of France. The works gathered together here allow us to examine at close range the world of fin-de-sicle France and the unsettling transformations that were taking place in industry and commerce, communications and transportation, and entertainment and leisure activities. Two hundred years after the French Revolution and one hundred years after the building of the Eiffel Tower, we in the New World of the late twentieth century find ourselves in yet another period of innovation and evolution. Our own era has much in common with those turbulent decades of the late nineteenth century when one thinks of how recent technological advances have transformed people's lives and their expectations, their basic patterns of living, and their ways of learning, communicating, and interacting. Nuclear technology, space exploration, computers, lasers, and advanced communication systems, to name only a few, have made a significant impact on our lives, affecting nearly every aspect of daily existence. In the same way, the inventions of the nineteenth century changed French life profoundly. The bicycle, the telephone and telegraph, new lighting systems, the development of new photographic and printing techniquesall these things and more gave the French a new, heightened awareness of the world around them and a new sense of progress. In the essays which follow, Miriam Levin, guest curator of the exhibition, and Gabriel Weisberg discuss these technological advances and how they affected art and life in France one hundred years ago. In addition to the authors who serve as our knowledgeable guides through this complex period, many others have joined in the effort to bring this exhibition to fruition. The staff of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Teri Edelstein, Director, Sean Tarpey, Registrar, Amy Wehle, Business Manager, and Patricia Keyes, Education Coordinator, have all done their usual superlative job in their various areas of expertise. Graduate intern Mia Schlppi and curatorial assistants Danielle

Page vi Dawson, Karina Hermanson, Erin Hogan, Janet Prell, and Carole Starr took on countless tasks which contributed to the final realization of the project.

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