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The world on view : objects from universal expositions, 1851-1915 / edited by: André Dombrowski ; contributors: Naoko Adachi, Laurel Burmeister, André Dombrowski, Olivia Dudnik, Nicholas Escobar, Jessica Hough, Emma Lasry, Anna Linehan, Isabelle Lynch, Ramey Mize, Heather Gibson Moqtaderi, Bryan Norton, Francesca Richman, Nicholas St. George Rogers, Serena Qiu, Erin Wrightson.
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- Format:
- Archive
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exhibitions--Pictorial works.
- Exhibitions.
- Art objects--Pictorial works.
- Art objects.
- Decorative arts--Pictorial works.
- Decorative arts.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 172 pages : illustrations (primarily color), map ; 22 x 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Objects from universal expositions, 1851-1915
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Lynn Marsden-Atlass
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : the world on view / André Dombrowski
- Chapter 2. Voices of the fair / Francesca Richman
- Chapter 3. World's Fairs and history / Nicholas St. George Rogers
- Chapter 4. Sites for seeing : spectatorial voyages through paper peepshows, stereographs, and moving images / Jessica Hough and Isabelle Lynch
- Chapter 5. The Anthropocene at the fair / Bryan Norton
- Chapter 6. Music at the World's Fairs / Nicholas Escobar and Nicholas St. George Rogers
- Chapter 7. The spectacle of education : kindergarten at the 1876 Centennial Exposition / Nicholas Escobar
- Chapter 8. Playing the world : Stewart Culin, board games, and the 1893 Columbian Exposition / Erin Wrightson
- Chapter 9. Crafting time and indigeneity : Chitimacha basketry and rookwood pottery at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Ramey Mize
- Chapter 1 Threads of "progress" : African textiles and the non-Western commodity at the Exposition universelle de 1900 / Jessica Hough
- Chapter 11. The world in a vase : the Transpacific ceramic exchange / Naoko Adachi and Serena Qiu
- Chapter 12. Photographic possessions : Jessie Tarbox Beals' "Catalog of Ethnological Photographs from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition" / Naoko Adachi and Ramey Mize
- Chapter 13. From the midways to the celluloid strip : dance and the moving image at World's Fairs and expositions / Isabelle Lynch
- Chapter 14. The tortured line : art nouveau and the imperial culture of the World's Fairs / Anna Linehan
- Chapter 15. Technology, innovation, and mass production at the fairs / Olivia Dudnik
- Chapter 16. For thirsty millions : Tufts' Arctic soda water at the Centennial Exposition / Laurel Burmeister and Heather Gibson Moqtaderi
- Chapter 17. The ten-second statuette : the case of photosculpture in 1867 André Dombrowski
- Chapter 18. Antiquity custom made by J. Chiurazzi & Fils / Serena Qiu
- Chapter 19. The local and the global : Gauguin, Brittany, and the fine arts at the World's Fair / Emma Lasry
- Chapter 20. Osman Hamdi Bey in 1893 / Erin Wrightson
- Map and list of World's Fairs, 1851-1915
- Exhibition checklist
- Photography credits
- Further reading.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from April 7-July 29, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172).
- ISBN:
- 9780692074244
- 0692074244
- OCLC:
- 1043949086
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