By Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low
ISBN-10: 0262013983
ISBN-13: 9780262013987
How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity via technological know-how and expertise via city making plans, foreign expositions, and museums.
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Yet, as a player in the creation of an organized liberal society, Eiffel himself was neither a republican moralist nor a social reformer. Rather, he was a practitioner with a symbolic aura —an enactor of technological and scientific progress, putting the laws of nature to work for human ends. To his mind, his iron bridges, domes, buildings, and the Eiffel Tower itself brought the order of natural law into the realm of everyday life to make it more effi cient and more beautiful. He had adapted his designs and manufacturing methods from those he had used in constructing railroad bridges, bringing them into the heart of the city and making expensive masonry construction outmoded.
81 Lockroy chose to interpret the form in more political terms, writing that the Eiffel Tower “summarizes the industrial grandeur and power of the present. ”82 And no single project could more dramatically move French society to enact the creation of liberal democracy. For Lockroy, the tower engaged millions of visitors from Paris, the nation, and the world in an experience that touched their imaginations and sensibilities, inspiring them, he asserted, with feelings of controlled ascent and comradely support that they would bring back to earth with them.
Setting himself as an example on this count, through arduous diplomacy and intellectual effort Hamy was able to acquire anthropological and ethnographic collections exhibited at the 1878 exposition, and then to found the Mus ée d’Ethnographie du Trocad éro (a new division of the Mus éum housed in the Trocad éro Palace). As that museum’s first director, he created a center for ethnographic study and public education. Using his connections at these two museums in the capital, Hamy emphasized the progressive evolution and variety of human cultural production in an organized setting.