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Total Pages : 1252 pages
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Download or read book The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893 written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Burg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184681
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Chicago's White City of 1893 written by David F. Burg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion. Although the World's Columbian Exposition was the fifteenth world's fair, it was of vastly greater scope than any of its predecessors. Chicago created a veritable new city. It was not only larger than any previous exposition but also more elaborately designed, more precisely laid out, more fully realized, and more prophetic. It was the first exposition truly to solicit the participation of the entire world. In this study of the White City, David F. Burg shows America at a crossroads in its development. It was in the process of moving from a largely agricultural society to a predominately urban and industrial one. The exposition was an index of American values, achievements, and expectation in this era of profound and complex change. The exposition was an achievement of cooperative endeavor and expertise. It demonstrated that both artistic capacity and technology were available to transform, in agreeable combination, burgeoning industrial cities into well-designed centers of business, culture, and community. Burg places his discussion in the context of the United States and Chicago during the early 1890s. Besides dealing with the multifaceted fair itself—its architecture, artworks, music, technological achievements—he discusses the congresses that were held on a variety of subjects, two of the most significant being the Congresses of Women and the World's Parliament of Religions. In the exposition's theme was the potential of fashioning the Kingdom of God on earth in contrast to the chaotic, dirty, industrial cities of the time. Burg finds in the exposition a significant legacy to architecture, city planning, and civic organization. Its most promising aftereffect occurred in the City Beautiful movement; its influence extended also to such ordinary concerns as well-lighted streets, efficient waste disposal, and honest government.
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Total Pages : 1326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. L. Dybwad
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Annotated Bibliography World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 written by G. L. Dybwad and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226293181
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Perfect Cities written by James Gilbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IllustrationsPreface1. Itineraries2. Chicago: Two Profiles3. Approaches: Discovery from a Distance4. First City: Form and Fantasy5. Second City: Our Town6. Third City: The Evangelical Metropolis7. Exit: The Gray CityNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Pennsylvania State Library
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Report of State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania State Library
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report of the State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Author : Julie K. Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026570
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Health and Medicine on Display written by Julie K. Brown and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With Heath and Medicine on Display, Julie Brown offers the first book-length examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice. " -- Inside dust jacket.
Author : Sandra Tomc
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472129015
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Fashion Nation written by Sandra Tomc and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were compelled to offer visual manifestations of their allegedly true ancestral form. Showing that folk and ethnic nationalism played a central role in writing and culture, the book draws on a rare and colorful visual archive of national costumes, cartoons, theatrical spectacles, and immersive entertainments to show how the United States sprung to life as a visual space for transatlantic audiences. Fashion Nation not only includes chapters on major U.S. travel writers like Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper, but it also presents explorations of the vogue for folk and ethnic costume, the role of Indigenous dress in Wild West spectacles, and the nationalistic décor on display at late nineteenth-century world’s fairs and amusement parks. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Fashion Nation opens the door to a forgotten legacy of visual symbols that still inhabit ethnic and white nationalism in the United States today, showing how fantasies of glittery surfaces were designed to draw the eye away from a sordid history.
Author : Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg)
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Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Mercantile Library Company
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Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Bulletin ... written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Mercantile Library Company and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirstin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429632274
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Stunts of Late Nineteenth-Century New York written by Kirstin Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century. This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these risky performances tapped into anxieties and fantasies concerning work, freedom, gendered/ raced/ classed bodies and the commodifi cation of human life. Its case studies examine bridge jumping, extreme walking contests, stunt journalists such as Nellie Bly, and cycling feats including Annie Londonderry’s round- the- world venture. Supported by extensive archival research and Performance Studies theorisations of precarity, liveness and surrogation, Smith theorises an under- examined form which is still prevalent in art, politics and commerce, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human life. Suitable for scholars and practitioners across a range of subjects, from Performance Studies to gender studies, to media studies, Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York explores how stunts turned everyday precarity into a spectacle.
Author : Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547414
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Barbarian Architecture written by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s. An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of “conspicuous consumption,” the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status—a term he coined in his 1899 classic The Theory of the Leisure Class. In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a wide range of arguments about modern architecture, but never has he attracted a comprehensive and critical treatment from the viewpoint of architectural history. In Barbarian Architecture, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury corrects this omission by reexamining Veblen’s famous book as an original theory of modernity and situating it in a particular place and time—Chicago in the 1890s. Merwood-Salisbury takes her title from Veblen’s use of the term “barbarian,” which refers to his belief that Gilded Age American society was a last remnant of a barbarian state of greed and acquisitiveness. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws on biography, intellectual history, and historiography, she explores Veblen’s position in relation to debates about industrial reform and aesthetics in Chicago during the period 1890–1906. Bolstered by a strong visual narrative made possible by several of Chicago’s historic photographic collections, Barbarian Architecture makes a compelling and original argument for the influence of Veblen’s home city on his work and ideas.
Author : Bob Hartnett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439678251
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Bootleg Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright written by Bob Hartnett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the secret Chicago laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style. Before Frank Lloyd Wright officially launched America's most famous architectural career, he was designing the building blocks of his legendary prairie style on the side. In violation of his contract with his employers, Adler and Sullivan, Wright moonlighted as an independent architect from his Oak Park studio. From 1892 through the spring of 1893, he experimented with the elements that would become his signature in houses in Chicago, La Grange and Oak Park. The full roster of these "bootleg homes" has remained a matter of mystery and debate. Robert Hartnett seeks to provide the first definitive account of the hidden artifacts of Wright's storied legacy.
Author : Ira Jacknis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284470
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Coming of Age in Chicago written by Ira Jacknis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair's focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included people making a living with their research, sporadic backyard diggers, religiously motivated researchers, and a small group who sought a "scientific" understanding of the lifeways of indigenous peoples. At the fair they set the foundation for anthropological inquiry and redefined the field. At the same time, the American public became aware, through their own experiences at the fair, of a global humanity, with reactions that ranged from revulsion to curiosity, tolerance, and kindness. Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox combine primary historical texts, modern essays, and rarely seen images from the period to create a volume essential for understanding the significance of this event. These texts explore the networking of thinkers, planners, dreamers, schemers, and scholars who interacted in a variety of venues to lay the groundwork for museums, academic departments, and expeditions. These new relationships helped shape the profession and the trajectory of the discipline, and they still resonate more than a century later.
Author : Keira V. Williams
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170852
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Amazons in America written by Keira V. Williams and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in America uncovers a rich tradition of matriarchal popular culture in the United States. Beginning with late-nineteenth-century anthropological studies, which theorized a universal prehistoric matriarchy, Williams explores how representations of women-centered societies reveal changing ideas of gender and power over the course of the twentieth century and into the present day. She examines a deep archive of cultural artifacts, both familiar and obscure, including L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz series, Progressive-era fiction like Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novel Herland, the original 1940s Wonder Woman comics, midcentury films featuring nuclear families, and feminist science fiction novels from the 1970s that invented prehistoric and futuristic matriarchal societies. While such texts have, at times, served as sites of feminist theory, Williams unpacks their cyclical nature and, in doing so, pinpoints some of the premises that have historically hindered gender equality in the United States. Williams also delves into popular works from the twenty-first century, such as Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise and DC Comics/Warner Bros.’ globally successful film Wonder Woman, which attest to the ongoing presence of matriarchal ideas and their capacity for combating patriarchy and white nationalism with visions of rebellion and liberation. Amazons in America provides an indispensable critique of how anxieties and fantasies about women in power are culturally expressed, ultimately informing a broader discussion about how to nurture a stable, equitable society.
Author : Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia written by Mercantile Library of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
