Department Chair
Andrew D. Nicholls, Ph.D., Professor of History
Date of Award
8-2012
Access Control
Open Access
Degree Name
History, M.A.
Department
History and Social Studies Education Department
Advisor
John D. Abromeit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Department Home page
http://history.buffalostate.edu/
First Reader
John D. Abromeit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Second Reader
Sarah B. Hinderliter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
Abstract
From 1853-1870, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussman transformed Paris from a medieval infrastructure to a modern bourgeois metropolis. This sweeping reform not only changed the aesthetic of Paris, but also its class structure, forms of leisure, and the way in which people viewed their rapidly changing society. Utilizing two icons of aesthetic modernity, Charles Baudelaire and Edouard Manet, I intend to demonstrate that revisiting Paris in the second half of the nineteenth-century, the very model of infrastructural modernization, can help us discover the roots of aesthetic modernism with all its contingencies and contradictions.
Recommended Citation
Schultz, Brian J., "Paris: Reflections of a Modern City" (2012). History Theses. 9.
https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/history_theses/9
