The workers pay no attention to me. The 1937 exposition marks the first time that an exposition is launched in order to shore up a sagging economy and to provide jobs for the unemployed. Both were built on sites of buildings left over from previous expositions: the Grand Palais replaced the old Palais de l'Industrie of 1855, and the Palais de Chaillot replaced the Palais du Trocadéro of 1878. It took place between 25 May and 25 November, centred upon the Trocadéro, just across the Seine from the Eiffel … One architect was making sketches of the night-time illumination patterns of the French buildings – only to have his drawings confiscated and destroyed by the exposition gendarmes.23. It was with the architecture of the pavilions and buildings specially built for the exhibition that France demonstrated his technique. Both the Palais de Chaillot, housing the Musée de l'Homme,[1] and the Palais de Tokyo, which houses the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, were created for this exhibition that was officially sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions. As time went on, the objectives themselves wavered and shifted in the political storms. There was considerable British criticism that the result was unrepresentative of Britain and compared poorly to the other pavilions' projections of national strength. At the time when the Universal Exposition of 1900 was in the planning stage, the Compagnie Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (the PLM) decided to build a new railway station with 13 tracks capable of handling tens of thousands of visitors. And Picasso's Guernica, on display in the Spanish pavilion, showed that painters were still capable of making powerful statements about the moral dimension of the contemporary world. [9], Britain had not been expecting such a competitive exposition, and its planned budget was only a small fraction of Germany's. The pavilion was nestled under the Eiffel tower looking out over the Seine to the main part of the Exposition site. Vera Mukhina designed the large figurative sculpture on the pavilion. Amidst the technological wonders and charming pavilions of artisanship, there lurked an unpleasant feeling of tension, suspicion, and hostility at the Exposition Internationale in 1937. But as 1936 drew closer, no detailed plans for the event had yet been drawn up. Others wanted to see the artisan exalted, in an attempt to ennoble colonial craftsmen and to fix the status of art as a decorative auxiliary to social concerns. Dezember 1888 in der spanischen Stadt Barcelona statt. First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd. Evrard, Guillaume (2010) “Producing and Consuming Agricultural Capital: The Aesthetics and Cultural Politics of Grain Elevators at the 1937 Paris International Exposition” in Balfour, Robert J. Detailed shots of the Soviet Pavillion at the 1937 Exposition internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie moderne in Paris. The mood of the 1937 exposition carried none of the buoyant optimism that prevailed in 1900. "Paris 1937 Exposition" – special edition of Le Monde Illustré, May 29, 1937. Art could profit by advances in industry – the use of photography in portrait painting was the most often-cited example – and industry borrowed liberally from the arts to lend grace to utility. But would the fair ever open its gates to the public? Sie empfing insgesamt 2,3 Millionen Besucher aus der ganzen Welt. You will pass by the Palais de Tokyo, double building built for the Universal Exhibition of 1937. Four distinguished French architects – Alfred Audoul, Eric Bagge, Jack Gérodias and René Hartwig – designed a structure in the art deco mode. 22 It is significant that, by the opening day ceremonies held on May 24, only the Russian and German pavilions were completely finished. Indeed, Albert Speer, chief architect of the Third Reich, thought so, and his German pavilion at the 1937 exposition was carried out in a spirit quite close to that of the Chaillot Palace. In a spirit of cooperation, even the Ile de France – the province that includes Paris – participated with a structure that resembled the top part of one tower in the City Hall of Paris. The philosophy was as congenial to fascist Italy as to democratic France or communist Russia. Italy was the benevolent dictatorship: sunny, open and Mediterranean it was founded on discipline, order and unity. The Soviet Union mounted the most expensive display of all: a map of mother Russia made entirely of gold studded with rubies, topazes, and other precious stones – a luxurious and luxuriant illustration the country’s industrial growth in recent years. Both buildings recalled some of the basic design features of their predecessors: the Grand Palais, like the old Palais de l'Industrie, crowning its elaborately decorated stone sheath with a vault of glass and iron; the Palais de Chaillot retaining from the old Palais du Trocadéro the encircling sweep of the colonnade and the ceremonial fountains facing the Seine. Marcello Piacentini was given the job of designing the pavilion exterior. "Leçon et avertissement pour l'Exposition 1937," Arts et métiers graphiques, 1936, numéro 51. One of the most successful manifestations of the goals of the exposition was the Railway Pavilion. In 1937, the Queen City of Expositions held court for the last time. "19 Chadourne could not see that the "but" is a mountain over which the entire world would one day have to cross. [8], The architect of the Soviet pavilion was Boris Iofan. All previous expositions had been international; but national rivalries were supposed to be subordinated to larger, "universal" concerns: the elevation of taste through the arts and the improvement of everyday life by science through industry. 2 botlles of armagnac Saint Vivant "Exposition Universelle 1937" Bottle was originally introduced to remember the Paris Universal Exposition of 1937 - Bottled 1960s/70s [please note that this is not a vintage Armagnac] Ryst Dupeyron vintage 1930 Please note that … The most famous structure created for the Exposition, and still remaining, is the Eiffel Tower In the domain of ideas, the 1937 exposition attempted to reconcile, symbolically, art and industry. The exposition was first conceived as a follow-up to the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Modernes of 1925. [8] Hitler had desired to withdraw from participation, but his architect Albert Speer convinced him to participate after all, showing Hitler his plans for the German pavilion. Paris World Expo 1937 --- Deutscher Pavillion bei Nacht II --- German Pavillion at night --- Pavillion allemand á nuit.jpg 1,153 × 1,678; 121 KB Paris World Expo 1937 --- Italian Pavillion at daytime --- Pavillion italien á jour.jpg 1,625 × 1,210; 297 KB The Universal Exhibition of 1937, officially the International Exhibition of "Arts and Techniques Applied to Modern Life", which was held in Paris from May 25 to November 25, 1937, was the first Exhibition organized in France under the rules of the Convention of Paris of 1928 on International Exhibitions. Reclaiming women for the history of world fairs (1876-1937), it also seeks to introduce new voices into these studies, dialoguing across disciplinary and national historiographies. When the gates to the exposition closed in November of 1937, they closed on the final Ritual of Peace and Progress in the queen city of expositions. Now the colonials were brought back and placed in isolated splendor on the Ile des Cygnes in the Seine. This return to the past by way of neoclassicism has been seen by some observers as a prime symbol of fascism in architecture. But for painters and sculptors, gold medals awarded at world's fairs never had the status comparable to awards from the annual salons. in La Revue Musicale, June-July, 1937, page 99. A Exposición Internacional de París de 1937, baixo o lema Exposición Internacional das Artes e das Técnicas na vida moderna, foi a sexta celebrada nesta cidade desde que naceron en Londres, en 1851. At night, the pavilion was illuminated by floodlights. Una exposició universal és una exposició de gran envergadura celebrada des de la segona meitat del segle xix en localitzacions arreu del món. Close by, these bas-reliefs by Pierre Le Faguay summed up the sources and international extent of influence of powered flight: "The ‘spike’ of our pavilion, without a doubt, is the animated model showing the passage by ferryboat from Paris to London,"18 the exhibit commissioners announced proudly. 11. In the spring of 1936, one of the most bitterly contested elections in the history of France gave the Communists and Socialists a dramatically increased representation in the legislature, thereby further polarizing an already deeply divided populace. Artists felt that the fine arts were more noble and refined products of the human spirit. Here Pagano had the joy of working alongside five different artists and placing Italy's newest industrial material such as linoleum and Termolux (shatterproof plate glass) next to a sumptuous chandelier from Murano and amber marble. France planned the new exposition with an eye toward consolidating her claims to cultural authority. Close by the Railway Pavilion was one of the most dynamic displays of the entire exposition: the Palais de l'Air. April und dem 9. viamichelin.co.uk. "U.S. Pavilion Carries Skyscraper Motif to Paris," Architectural Record, December, 1937. Orientalism and the Reality Effect: Angkor at the Universal Expositions, 1867–1937 The technology of transportation sealed the growing friendship between England and France. Inside, they set forth his models and plans for the ideal city of the future. But in other respects, the Chaillot Palace continues a tradition begun in 1900 with the construction of the Grand Palais. 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"14  Both Carlu and Azéma had been winners of the traditionally prestigious Prix de Rome in architecture, and could be counted on the design a building not too far out of the mainstream. Des hommes exotiques dans les expositions universelles et internationales (1851-1937), in: Exhibitions. The pavilion's interior carried out similar motifs: strict stylistic geometry, relieved by colorful, semi-abstract murals depicting the structure and power of rail transport. The very title – "International Exposition of Arts and Technics in Modern Life" – shows the decisive split from the spirit of the earlier expositions universelles. Here the French borrowed from the Chicago Columbian Exposition, which devoted a portion of the fairgrounds to the states of the union. The purpose of the exhibit was educational; but visitors must have been struck with the fluid beauty of the patterns of light as they flowed back and forth across the exposed sections of the locomotive engine. 2. "This great lesson in international cooperation will not be forgotten,"1 predicted Fernand Chapsal, the French Minister of Commerce, in the official public report on the exposition. The idiom of the new building would be modern, but not too much. As he surveyed the exhibit of tribal masks from Gabon and the Ivory Coast, the official chronicler of the colonial exhibit, Marc Chadourne, has a vision of the message crying out from these wares: "I am black, but I am beautiful. In the modern view, easel painting was elitist. A good internet reference source for the pavilions at the 1937 exposition: http://www.worldfairs.info/expopavillonslist.php?expo_id=12#115, Here is my account of the background for the Paris expositions, Quotations from the Works of Samuel Johnson, Presentations for Biography of a City: San Francisco, Signature Buildings of San Francisco Backstory. Only thirty-four million visitors – half the attendance of the 1900 exposition – attended this elaborate ceremony of the unification of Arts and Technics.