The Politics of the Provisional

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Made of Money: Transparent Bodies, Authentic Values, Paper Signs

2 Between States: Passports, Certificates, and Citizens

3 Revolutionary Models/Model Revolutionaries: Architecture, Print, and Participation at the Festival of the Federation

4 Performing the Bastille: Pierre-François Palloy and the Memory-Work of the Revolution

5 Material Futures: Marking Time in a Revolutionary Almanac

6 Paper Traces: Playing Games with the Revolutionary Past

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Succeeds as an exposition of the ephemeral art of the Revolution due to Taws’s imaginative choice of objects to be analyzed, his meticulous examination and perceptive analysis of the many, often obscure, features of this art, and his ability to weave his discoveries into a sophisticated and original argument that expands current understanding of the relationship of revolutionary culture to the politics of the Revolution.”

—Kenneth Margerison, American Historical Review