The Prison House of Modernism: Colonial Spaces and the Construction of the Primitive at the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition

• Published in: Modernism/modernity
• Main Author: D.V. Jones
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Greenland; Pacific; Medina; Nicholson; Morton; Aldrich; inuit; Alaska
• Online Access: https://architexturez.net//doc/10-1353/mod-2007-0014; https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2007.0014

[extract…] The Coloniale Moderne I am the Empire in its décadence watching the tall blond Norsemen march, meanwhile writing indolently, with a golden style, acrostics where the sunlight's languors dance. 1 1931 was a fateful year, for it marked the inauguration of Negritude and the grand openin...