ARTH 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Italo Calvino, Modern History, Petri Dish
5 Jan 2017
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____ person was a self-proclaimed artist and demolitionist -- according to the philosopher walter. Napoleon the 3rd, self-proclaimed emperor -- his project would change the way paris was seen it was a project of urban renewal with a deliberate link to the past. - term that loosely designates nearly every physical change in paris that had implications not only for the architecture, and typography of the city, but for the social fabric as well. He simply remodeled the city typography by remodeling, tearing down and building anew. In both cases the act of demolition is the same: that is to ride the city of a past marked by evil and it"s powerful lingering memory. There is a plaque as a 2007 commemorating the event that took place in 1935 and again in 1945 -- these are just some examples of the process of denazification that was attempted.
