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Dana Arnold 201710 讲学题目

文化之都：十九世纪的伦敦和巴黎

Theemergence of London and Paris as European cultural capitals in the openingdecades of the nineteenth century found expression in new building types tohouse forms of urban entertainment and changes in practices ofviewing. Here I want to consider the ways in which London’s arcades,dioramas, panoramas and guidebooks cohere to produce a narrative of the city.These modes of engagement with the metropolis proliferated across all the majorEuropean capitals and were part of the commodification of cities in this periodof intensive capitalistic growth. Any exploration of London as a culturalcapital (or as cultural capital) must take into account this broader panEuropean phenomenon. The aim here is to benefit from the points of contactbetween London and Paris as regards the consumption of the city as culturalcapital, and ultimately its possession, by a range of publics. My frame is theBenjaminian notion of the city as fragment or miniature as played out in hisArcades Project. In this way my comparative history does not comprise ananalysis of the two cities following the usual typologies such asinfrastructure, demography and so forth. Instead, it offers a way of exploringLondon through the historical methodology used by Benjamin which drew directlyon, and was developed from, his evidence for the evocation of Paris in thenineteenth century. 

主讲人：Dana Arnold

Professorof Architectural History and Theory at the University of Middlesex，UK

DanaArnold is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University ofMiddlesex. She is Guest Professor, International Research Centre for ChineseCultural Heritage Conservation, Tianjin University, China and HonoraryProfessor in the Faculty of Architecture at the Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara where she leads a British Academy funded research projectthat looks at architectural interaction between diverse cultures.

Hermonographs include: Rural Urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenthcentury (2006); Reading Architectural History (2002); Re-presenting theMetropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1800-1840(2000). She is also the author of the bestselling Art History: A Very ShortIntroduction (2004), which has been translated in to many languages. Her recentedited and co-edited volumes include: Art History: Contemporary Perspectives onMethod (2010), Biographies and Space (2007) and Rethinking ArchitecturalHistoriography (2006). She was editor of the international journal Art History1997-2002 and edits two book series New Interventions in Art History andAnthologies in Art History. Her forthcoming book: The Spaces of the Hospital isto be published by Routledge.

主持：卢永毅教授

Time:  18:00 pm, 2017/10/24

Room: B1，Building B