Designing the Centennial : a history of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia / Bruno Giberti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giberti, Bruno, author.

Series:

Material worlds.

Material Worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.).

Centennial Exhibition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity--the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what makes

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Order of the Exhibition; 2. The Architecture of the Exhibition; 3. The Installation in the Main Building; 4. Ways of Seeing the Exhibition; 5. The American System of Awards; 6. The Exhibitionary Complex in Philadelphia; Appendix: Enlarged Plates; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9213-7

0-8131-5016-7

0-8131-7029-X

OCLC:

65338577