{"id":3937,"date":"2014-11-20T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturedallroundman.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2015-02-24T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T01:00:29","slug":"1937-paris-international-exposition-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/1937-paris-international-exposition-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1937 Paris International Exposition: Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following documents are intended to be viewed and read in conjunction with my piece ‘Art and Architecture Towards Political Crises: The 1937 Paris International Exposition in Context’<\/a>. They consist of pictures and videos documenting the Paris exposition; images of prominent artworks connected to and on display\u00a0during the exposition, including art by Pablo Picasso,\u00a0Fernand L\u00e9ger, Raoul Dufy, Joan Mir\u00f3, and Alexander Calder; and exposition memorabilia, in the way of posters, ticket stubs, and maps. There are architectural images, details, and drawings related to the exposition; and pictures and plans depicting the course of those grandiose architectural projects devised through the 1930s by Boris Iofan and Albert Speer – the chief architects, respectively, of Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Nazi Germany. More, I have included Paul \u00c9luard’s 1938 poem ‘La Victoire de Guernica’ (‘The Victory of Guernica’); and Alain Resnais’s 1950 film short, Guernica<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The opening of the 1937 Paris International Exposition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The old Palais du Trocad\u00e9ro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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French poster advertising the exposition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Entry ticket for the international exposition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Official guide book for the exposition, costing 3 francs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A map of the exposition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Commemorative coin, with the full title of the exposition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The exposition’s Palais de l’Air. Audoul, Hartwig, and G\u00e9rodias were the architects, while Delaunay and Aublet designed the interior.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fernand L\u00e9ger – Le transport des forces<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raoul Dufy – La F\u00e9e Electricit\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Illustration, with details, of the proposed Phare du Monde<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The pavilions in the context of the Jardins du Trocad\u00e9ro, with the Palais de Chaillot in the background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Joan Mir\u00f3 working on The Reaper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alexander Calder’s Mercury Fountain, now in the Fundaci\u00f3 Mir\u00f3 in Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, which was consecrated in 1883 and demolished in 1931<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 1931, in preparation for the Palace of the Soviets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Illustration for the proposed Palace of the Soviets, comparing its height with built landmarks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The open-air swimming pool – for a time, the largest in the world – which in 1958 took over the site of the unfinished Palace of the Soviets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, consecrated in 2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The current logo of the Russian film studio Mosfilm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coloured illustration of the Soviet pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Soviet pavilion at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Soviet pavilion base and relief<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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October, 1937 issue of Soviet Russia Today, featuring Frank Lloyd Wright’s article ‘Architecture and Life in the USSR’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Nazi party rally grounds at Nuremberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lichtverschmutzung-Nuernberg-Reichsparteitag-Lichtdom\"<\/a>
The Cathedral of Light at Nuremberg: 130 anti-aircraft searchlights shone into the night sky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Olympiastadion in Berlin, 1936<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nazi Germany’s pavilion lit at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of the German pavilion’s eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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German pavilion interior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The sickle from Worker and Kolkhoz Woman preparing to be hoisted into place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Worker and Kolkhoz Woman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Marble Gallery of the New Reich Chancellery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Speer’s design for the interior of the proposed Volkshalle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The proposed Prachtstrasse for Berlin, with Triumphbogen and Volkshalle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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‘La Victoire de Guernica’<\/strong><\/address>\n
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Beau monde des masures<\/address>\n
De la nuit et des champs<\/address>\n
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Visages bons au feu visages bons au fond<\/address>\n
Aux refus \u00e0 la nuit aux injures aux coups<\/address>\n
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III<\/address>\n
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Visages bons \u00e0 tout<\/address>\n
Voici le vide qui vous fixe<\/address>\n
Votre mort va servir d’exemple<\/address>\n
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IV<\/address>\n
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La mort coeur renvers\u00e9<\/address>\n
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Ils vous ont fait payer le pain
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VI<\/address>\n
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Ils disaient d\u00e9sirer la bonne intelligence
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Ils pers\u00e9v\u00e8rent ils exag\u00e8rent ils ne sont pas de notre monde<\/address>\n
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VIII<\/address>\n
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Les femmes les enfants ont le m\u00eame tr\u00e9sor
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Les femmes les enfants ont le m\u00eame tr\u00e9sor
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\nLes hommes le d\u00e9fendent comme ils peuvent<\/address>\n
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Les femmes les enfants ont les m\u00eames roses rouges
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XI<\/address>\n
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La peur et le courage de vivre et de mourir
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XII<\/address>\n
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Hommes pour qui ce tr\u00e9sor fut chant\u00e9
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XIII<\/address>\n
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Hommes r\u00e9els pour qui le d\u00e9sespoir
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XIV<\/address>\n
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Parias la mort la terre et la hideur
\nDe nos ennemis ont la couleur
\nMonotone de notre nuit
\nNous en aurons raison.<\/address>\n
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(Paul \u00c9luard, Cours Naturel, 1938)<\/address>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_da3eciNlpE<\/p>\n

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