Creating the Musée d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France

by Andrea Kupfer Schneider

Book Overview

The Gare d'Orsay train station, designed by French architect Victor Laloux, opened in Paris in 1900 to much fanfare. In fact, it was so beautiful that the French painter Edouard D?taille felt it would be more appropriate as a museum. Eighty-six years later, after a complex and controversial decision-making process, the French government finally transformed the station into the Mus?e d'Orsay, now one of the most dramatic and popular museums in Paris...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999306146
• ISBN13: 9780999306147
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Meadows Communications
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"