Hollis Clayson is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA. André Dombrowski is Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

'There are times when divergent academic and ideological interests come together unexpectedly; these events can yield new scholarly insights even as they lay bare disciplinary antagonisms. A 2009 symposium at the Clark Art Institute was just such an occasion. Its interrogatory title Is Paris Still the Capital of the 19th Century? signaled the conveners’ interest in the legacies of Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and T. J. Clark for the writing of nineteenth-century art history. Less clear was whether the title was meant ironically or in earnest. Were the conveners purposely begging the question? The publication of a related collection of essays now provides some answers. Edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski, who jointly organized the symposium, the volume includes essays by eight of the original speakers, augmented by contributions by five additional scholars.'--CAA Reviews'The essays in this volume draw us to a terrain we love and think we know, but by asking, "Is Paris still capital of the nineteenth century", the authors work to destabilize our knowledge of the capital of modernism and modernity. They accomplish this by probing the familiar to uncover new depths (Manet, Benjamin, Haussmannization); by juxtaposing painting with printmaking, photography, electric lighting; and by seeing Paris anew in a global context. Highly recommended.' --Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and author of Manet and the Family Romance

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements IntroductionHollis Clayson and André DombrowskiSECTION I: MODERNITYIntroduction by André Dombrowski1 Architecture’s Capital? Revisiting Benjamin’s Paris Charles Rice2 How Haussmann’s Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa3 The Guillotine SublimeMarc Gotlieb4 Victorine’s Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of CommoditiesPaul Smith5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874Margaret WerthSECTION II: GEOGRAPHYIntroduction by Hollis Clayson6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang9 White City vs. La Ville lumière: Electrical Displays at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Hélène ValanceSECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis12 Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy André Dombrowski13 Mary Cassatt’s Lamp Hollis ClaysonAfterword Hollis Clayson and André DombrowskiFurther ReadingIndex

Hollis Clayson is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA. André Dombrowski is Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

'There are times when divergent academic and ideological interests come together unexpectedly; these events can yield new scholarly insights even as they lay bare disciplinary antagonisms. A 2009 symposium at the Clark Art Institute was just such an occasion. Its interrogatory title Is Paris Still the Capital of the 19th Century? signaled the conveners’ interest in the legacies of Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and T. J. Clark for the writing of nineteenth-century art history. Less clear was whether the title was meant ironically or in earnest. Were the conveners purposely begging the question? The publication of a related collection of essays now provides some answers. Edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski, who jointly organized the symposium, the volume includes essays by eight of the original speakers, augmented by contributions by five additional scholars.'--CAA Reviews'The essays in this volume draw us to a terrain we love and think we know, but by asking, "Is Paris still capital of the nineteenth century", the authors work to destabilize our knowledge of the capital of modernism and modernity. They accomplish this by probing the familiar to uncover new depths (Manet, Benjamin, Haussmannization); by juxtaposing painting with printmaking, photography, electric lighting; and by seeing Paris anew in a global context. Highly recommended.' --Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and author of Manet and the Family Romance

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements IntroductionHollis Clayson and André DombrowskiSECTION I: MODERNITYIntroduction by André Dombrowski1 Architecture’s Capital? Revisiting Benjamin’s Paris Charles Rice2 How Haussmann’s Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa3 The Guillotine SublimeMarc Gotlieb4 Victorine’s Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of CommoditiesPaul Smith5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874Margaret WerthSECTION II: GEOGRAPHYIntroduction by Hollis Clayson6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang9 White City vs. La Ville lumière: Electrical Displays at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Hélène ValanceSECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis12 Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy André Dombrowski13 Mary Cassatt’s Lamp Hollis ClaysonAfterword Hollis Clayson and André DombrowskiFurther ReadingIndex

Hollis Clayson is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Northwestern University, USA. André Dombrowski is Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

'There are times when divergent academic and ideological interests come together unexpectedly; these events can yield new scholarly insights even as they lay bare disciplinary antagonisms. A 2009 symposium at the Clark Art Institute was just such an occasion. Its interrogatory title Is Paris Still the Capital of the 19th Century? signaled the conveners’ interest in the legacies of Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and T. J. Clark for the writing of nineteenth-century art history. Less clear was whether the title was meant ironically or in earnest. Were the conveners purposely begging the question? The publication of a related collection of essays now provides some answers. Edited by Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski, who jointly organized the symposium, the volume includes essays by eight of the original speakers, augmented by contributions by five additional scholars.'--CAA Reviews'The essays in this volume draw us to a terrain we love and think we know, but by asking, "Is Paris still capital of the nineteenth century", the authors work to destabilize our knowledge of the capital of modernism and modernity. They accomplish this by probing the familiar to uncover new depths (Manet, Benjamin, Haussmannization); by juxtaposing painting with printmaking, photography, electric lighting; and by seeing Paris anew in a global context. Highly recommended.' --Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and author of Manet and the Family Romance

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements IntroductionHollis Clayson and André DombrowskiSECTION I: MODERNITYIntroduction by André Dombrowski1 Architecture’s Capital? Revisiting Benjamin’s Paris Charles Rice2 How Haussmann’s Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic Peter Soppelsa3 The Guillotine SublimeMarc Gotlieb4 Victorine’s Secret: Baudelaire and the Ambiguity of CommoditiesPaul Smith5 A Laughter of the Look: Manet, Mallarmé, Polichinelle, and the Salon Jury in 1874Margaret WerthSECTION II: GEOGRAPHYIntroduction by Hollis Clayson6 Revisiting the 1860s: Race and Place in Cape Town and Paris Tamar Garb7 Osman Hamdi Bey and Ottoman Aestheticism Mary Roberts8 Paris, Japan, and Modernity: A Vexed Ratio Ting Chang9 White City vs. La Ville lumière: Electrical Displays at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893) Hélène ValanceSECTION III: CIRCULATION Introduction by Hollis Clayson10 Manet and the Multiple Anne Higonnet11 Gesture, Pose, Practice: Charles Nègre and the Image of Instantaneity Jacob W. Lewis12 Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy André Dombrowski13 Mary Cassatt’s Lamp Hollis ClaysonAfterword Hollis Clayson and André DombrowskiFurther ReadingIndex