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Encyclopedia Of World S Fairs And Expositions
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Author : John E. Findling
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2008
Encyclopedia Of World S Fairs And Expositions written by John E. Findling and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
This encyclopedia contains individual histories of each of the nearly 100 World's Fairs and expositions held in more than 20 countries since 1851. This revised and updated second edition of the book originally published as ""A Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions"" in 1990 includes new entries, including essays on the World's Fairs that will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2008 and in Shanghai, China, in 2010. Many of the original essays have been revised and expanded. The topics covered include goods, tourism, architecture, art and culture, and ""exhibition fatigue.""Each fair history includes its own annotated bibliography which provides, when possible, the location of relevant primary sources and comments on the quality of secondary sources. Several appendices provide information on the Bureau of International Expositions, as well as fair statistics, fair officials, fairs that did not qualify for inclusion, and fairs that were planned but never held. The book includes a foreword by Vicente G. Loscertales, the secretary general of the Bureau of International Expositions.
World Of Fairs
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-11
World Of Fairs written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-11 with History categories.
In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.
Fair America
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2013-06-04
Fair America written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with History categories.
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
World S Fairs
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Author : Erik Mattie
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1998
World S Fairs written by Erik Mattie and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
As showcases of design, architecture, technology, industry and politics, world's fairs have served as overviews of society's accomplishments as well as barometers of the optimism for the future. While many of the products and ideas promoted at past fairs never materialized, many became commonplace: television, for example, was first shown at the 1939 New York fair. Similarly, while many buildings and landscapes built for fairs have become world-wide icons - the Eiffel Tower, the Crystal Palace, the Barcelona Pavilion, the Seattle Space Needle, the Buckminster Fuller Dome in Montreal - hundreds of splendid structures have been forgotten.
The Great World S Fairs And Expositions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Great World S Fairs And Expositions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Exhibitions categories.
Cultures Of International Exhibitions 1840 1940
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Author : Marta Filipová
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Cultures Of International Exhibitions 1840 1940 written by Marta Filipová and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
Beyond the great exhibitions, expositions universelles and world fairs in London, Paris or Chicago, numerous smaller, yet ambitious exhibitions took place in provincial cities and towns across the world. Focusing on the period between 1840 and 1940, this volume takes a novel look at the exhibitionary cultures of this period and examines the motivations, scope, and impact of lesser-known exhibitions in, for example, Australia, Japan, Brazil, as well as a number of European countries. The individual case studies included explore the role of these exhibitions in the global exhibitionary network and consider their ?marginality? related to their location and omission by academic research so far. The chapters also highlight a number of important issues from regional or national identities, the role of modernisation and tradition, to the relationship between capital cities and provincial towns present in these exhibitions. They also address the key topic of colonial exhibitions as well as the displays of arts and design in the context of the so-called marginal fairs. Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins therefore opens up new angles in the way the global phenomenon of a great exhibition can be examined through the prism of the regional, and will make a vital contribution to those interested in exhibition studies and related fields.
World S Fairs And Expos
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Author : Allan Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Release Date : 1991
World S Fairs And Expos written by Allan Fowler and has been published by Children's Press(CT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Describes historic and modern World's fairs, where new and future inventions, and styles of architecture, art, and entertainment are previewed.
All The World S A Fair
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Author : Robert W. Rydell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1987-10-15
All The World S A Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-10-15 with History categories.
Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.
Cultures Of International Exhibitions 1840 1940
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Cultures Of International Exhibitions 1840 1940 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Exhibitions categories.
Making Culture Visible
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Author : Julie K. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Making Culture Visible written by Julie K. Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with History categories.
First published in 2001. Making Culture Visible provides a fresh focus on the history of nineteenth-century photography. The narrative moves from a close focus on several selected events between 1847 and 1900, beginning with six industrial fairs of the 1840s-1860s to the looming presence of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in the mid-1870s. The last two chapters deal with the exhibition work of the Smithsonian Institution’s US National Museum in the 1880s and finally the collecting and displays of public libraries in the 1890s. The evolution of the increasingly complex social function of photography is clearly demonstrated.