Personified Continents in Public Places: Internationalism, Art, and Geography in Late Nineteenth Century Paris
Personified Continents in Public Places: Internationalism, Art, and Geography in Late Nineteenth Century Paris
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公共场所的拟人化大陆:十九世纪末巴黎的国际主义、艺术和地理
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10.1007/978-3-030-49516-9_8
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2020
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Shimazu Toshiyuki
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湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;Noriko Yuzawa;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子(分担執筆);湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子;湯澤規子(矢ケ﨑典隆・森島斉・横山智編);湯澤規子(中西聡編);Shimazu Toshiyuki
This paper examines the yet unexplored relationships between internationalism, art, and geography by discussing the two cases of Paris, in the late nineteenth century. Using a landscape-as-text approach and the concepts of scale jumping and imaginative geographies, I focused here on the female statues representing the continents. Late nineteenth century Paris was characterized as the site where occurred a host of projects and events promoting internationalism by means of some kind of scale jumping. The world’s fairs and international congresses were typical events concerning internationalism, especially a hegemonic one. The erection ofLes Quatre Parties du Mondewas virtually linked to the debates and assertions surrounding the selection of the prime meridian, which was one of the themes at the two Paris international geographical congresses: the Congrès International des Sciences Géographiques in 1875, and the Congrès International de Géographie Commerciale in 1878. The physiognomies ofLes Quatre Parties du Mondedelivered an apparent message of the supremacy of Europe over others, and the fountain and statues were intended to symbolize the Paris meridian itself and to assert its status as the starting point for the calculation of the world’s longitude. The group ofLes Six Continentswas stemmed from the sort of hegemonic internationalism and imaginative geographies that found themselves at the 1878 Paris International Universal Exposition. While the appearances ofLes Six Continentsindicated a linear progress from primitive Oceania to civilized Europe, their arrangement at the inaugural ceremony at the Palais du Trocadéro, signified the historical and geographical centrality of the Mediterranean world. BothLes Quatre Parties du MondeandLes Six Continentscould be taken as the descendants of the title page of Ortelius’ first world atlas. The practice to erect the statues of the continents could be regarded as a geographical practice, and these statues could also be understood as a different kind of geo-body.