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Paris Transforming (CLS 75)
In this entertaining and provocative course, artist and performer Leonard Pitt will share his research on Paris and how that grand city has been transformed over the centuries. The five lectures will cover different aspects of the city's evolution: its origins under the Romans 2,000 years ago; the work of Baron Haussmann in the 19th century when much of the city’s medieval and Renaissance fabric was demolished to create the modern city; and the drama of Paris trying to adapt to notions of Modernism in the period following World War II as exemplified by plans to raze the Marais. Perhaps most curiously, we will explore how large swaths of the city were laid out not as a result of a reasoned process of deliberation, but rather as a result of raw violent emotion, as seen in the Louvre, Place des Vosges, and Palais Royal. Each lecture will be amply illustrated with slides.
Leonard Pitt
Author; Actor
Leonard Pitt resided in Paris for most of the 1960s
where he studied mime with Etienne Decroux. In 2002,
his book Walks Through Lost Paris was published in
Paris, in French. The book sold out in six weeks and
became a bestseller. His second book, A Small Moment
of Great Illumination, about the life of the 17th-century
Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes, was published in 2006.
His second volume on Paris is due out in May. He
is currently working on a third book about Paris
based on his collection of turn of the 20th-century
Paris postcards.
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Course Details
Mondays
7:00 - 8:50 pm
5 weeks
Jun 23 - Jul 21
1 unit $200
Drop by: Jul 6
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