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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
ISBN : WISC:89073062085
Author : Henry D. Northrop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337759335
Author : Sarah Wadsworth,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558499287
Explores the creation and significance of an exhibit hall at the 1893 world's fair that contained more than 8,000 volumes of writings by women.
Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486130637
128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
Author : Wanda Corn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520947467
This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America’s Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman’s Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman’s progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of modern woman’s opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the complex discourse of fin de siècle woman’s politics. The Woman’s Building offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put women rather than men at its center.
Author : Bill Cotter,Bill Young
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439642146
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair showcases the beauty of this international spectacular through rare color photographs, published here for the first time. Advertised as the "Billion-Dollar Fair," the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair transformed a sleepy park in the borough of Queens into a fantasy world enjoyed by more than 51 million visitors from around the world. While many countries and states exhibited at the fair, the most memorable pavilions were built by the giants of American industry. Their exhibits took guests backward and forward in time, all the while extolling how marvelous everyday life would be through the use of their products. Many of the techniques used in these shows set the standard for future fairs and theme parks, and the pavilions that housed them remain the most elaborate structures ever built for an American fair.
Author : Istvan Ormos
Publisher : IFAO
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782724708301
Built as a temporary structure and made of ephemeral materials, "Cairo Street" had a dual nature. On the one hand it was a purely scientific installation, a piece of anthropology. On the other, it became the most popular entertainment venue at the World's Columbian Exposition of Chicago (1893), a place where "people went wild with excitement". Far from being a copy of any actual street, it was an assemblage of authentic architectural elements put together in such a way as to conjure up the atmosphere of the Arab-Islamic metropolis, the city of the Thousand and One Nights. Its impact was greatly enhanced by the presence of local Cairo inhabitants, who plied their trade, some of them with their camels, donkeys, monkeys, and even snakes. The belly dancing on Cairo Street caused an enormous stir: many claimed that it was immoral and called for its immediate suspension; others regarded it as a performance of important scientific and ethnological value. It was never suspended-and people flocked to see it. An immense amount has been written about world's fairs. This monograph represents a novel approach in that it subjects a single project, the Cairo Street, to detailed analysis, placing particular emphasis on interpreting it within the context of the Fair as a whole. What was the great uproar about the belly dancing? What motivated it? In order to answer these questions, this monograph attempts to offer a complex, multi-faceted, interpretation within the context of the society of the time. Cairo Street was the sensation of the World's Columbian Exposition, a fair which many sold their stoves, mortgaged their houses, spent their life savings or their funeral money to see. This monograph is enhanced with a ground plan and 168 illustrations.
Author : Nelleke Teughels,Peter Scholliers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317186434
World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society, yet whilst the function and purpose of architecture at these major events has been well-studied, the place of food has received very little attention. Food played a crucial part in the lived experience of the exhibitions: for visitors, who could acquaint themselves with the latest food innovations, exotic cuisines and ’traditional’ dishes; for officials attending lavish banquets; for the manufacturers who displayed their new culinary products; and for scientists who met to discuss the latest technologies in food hygiene. Food stood as a powerful semiotic device for communicating and maintaining conceptions of identity, history, traditions and progress, of inclusion and exclusion, making it a valuable tool for researching the construction of national or corporate sentiments. Combining recent developments in food studies and the history of major international exhibitions, this volume provides a refreshing alternative view of these international and intercultural spectacles.
Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Century of Progress International Exposition
ISBN : 0719036305
Author : Mary Hawkesworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226172521
A classroom resource for instructors that includes full syllabi and teaching modules, Feminist Practices will be of interest to anyone who teaches in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Feminist Practices is intended for use in classrooms and to spark creative ideas for teaching a diverse array of topics. What makes a practice feminist? What is at stake in claiming the feminist label? Whether within a university context or in larger national and global ones, feminist projects involve challenging established relations of power (critique), envisioning alternative possibilities (theory), and employing activism to change social relations. By taking diverse forms of feminist practice as its focal point, this course reader investigates how to study the complexity of women’s and men’s lives in ways that take race, gender-power, ethnicity, class, and nationality seriously. Feminist Practices also shows how the production of such feminist knowledge challenges long-established beliefs about the world. Topics covered include • Gendered labor, • Commercialization of sexuality and reproduction, • Love and marriage in the twenty-first century, • Violence against women, • Varieties of feminist activism, and • Women’s leadership and governance. Feminist Practices draws upon articles published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society to explore the nature of feminist practices in the twenty-first century and the range of issues these practices address. Organized thematically the collection captures the complexity of a global movement that emerges in the context of local struggles over diverse modes of injustice.
Author : Joel Daehnke
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780821415023
"Enlisting works by Mark Twain and Willa Cather, as well as noncanonical sources, such as private journals, Daehnke examines the manner in which the imagery of the human figure at work and play in the frontier landscape participated in the nationalist, "civilizing" project of westward expansion. While acknowledging the growing secularization of American life, Daehnke surveys the continuing claims of the Christian redemptive scheme as a powerful symbolic domain for these writers' reflections on social progress and the potential for human perfectibility in the landscapes of the West."--Jacket.
Author : Russell Lynes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486242390
Eakins, Hunt, French, Morse, Trumbull, et al. and their struggle to make art respectable in 19th-century America. 211 illus.
Author : John C. Paige,Laura E. Soullière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Bathhouse Row (Hot Springs, Ark.)
ISBN : MINN:31951P00953238A
Author : Emily Brooksby Wheeler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439668511
Representing lawmakers and lawbreakers, artists and adventurers or scholars and activists, the women of Utah defied stereotypes. At the crossroads of the West, they found new challenges and opportunities to forge their own paths. Emma Dean explored the Rocky Mountains with her famous spouse, John Wesley Powell. Martha Hughes Cannon defeated her husband to become the first female state senator. Maud Fitch drove an ambulance under German artillery fire to rescue downed pilots in World War I. Author Emily Brooksby Wheeler celebrates the remarkable Utah women who, whether racing into danger or nurturing those who fell behind, changed their world and ours.
Author : Neil Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226317587
Selected essays written over a period of fifteen years.