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Article: The Elusive Faces of Modernity: Jacques Greber and the Planning of the 1937 Paris World Fair.
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- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Abstract
The occasion of the first commission that Jacques Greber received to plan the new city centre of Ottawa--the 1937 Paris International Exposition--was the scene of the first encounter between the proponents of the New Architecture and the tenets of the "Retour a l'Ordre." The last in the long tradition of French "Universelles," with their common eighteenth-century Illuminist legacy, the exposition Greber planned was the first to open its doors widely to the most radical modern arts. This article argues that Greber based the exposition on a double refusal: On the one hand; the refusal to introduce a unique controlling style, as had been the case in all ...
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