Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris—Bird’s-eye map—Daumesnil—Peltier 1931
£230
SKU: P-7-028505
Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris 1931 — Plan officiel à vol d’oiseau [Official bird’s-eye plan]
Georges Peltier turns the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibition into a miniature architectural spectacle, arranging its pavilions, waterways and attractions in a detailed bird’s-eye view around Lac Daumesnil. The reconstructed Angkor temple and contrasting national and colonial buildings give the scene an immediately recognisable character. Beneath its appeal as an illustrated visitor’s guide lies the exhibition’s political purpose: presenting empire as an ordered world of monuments, commerce and entertainment. Published as the official plan by Blondel La Rougery, the folding sheet combines practical orientation with the persuasive imagery of the event. It is particularly rewarding for its dense architectural detail and the now-vanished exhibition landscape in the Bois de Vincennes. Today the Boulevard Périphérique cuts across the western part of this vanished exhibition landscape: it passes beneath Avenue Daumesnil just east of the surviving Palais de la Porte Dorée, then curves south-west between the city and Lac Daumesnil towards Porte de Reuilly and Porte de Charenton. Covered stretches at Porte Dorée and Porte de Reuilly preserve surface access to the Bois de Vincennes.
Size 49 x 79 cm | 19.0 x 31.0 inches
Date Published: 1931
Type: Vintage colour-lithographed folding bird’s-eye exhibition plan
Author: Peltier, Georges
Publication: Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris
Condition: Fair |
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