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Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia
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by Bruno Giberti
Sales Rank: 1071191
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 328 pages
Published by: University Press of Kentucky June 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813122317
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813122311
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Pamela H. Simpson
"An important contribution to the literature on the international expositions."
Book Description
Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind the scenes look at the planning of Americas first important worlds fair-the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. The conflicts between the players-scientists and engineers, planners and politicians, organizers and their audience-demonstrate wider cultural clashes between a traditional view of things as object lessons and our more current understanding of things as commodities.
Bruno Giberti uses the official reports of the US Centennial Commission and photographs of the Centennial Photographic Company, as well as the ephemera of the exhibition and literary accounts in books, magazines, and newspapers to examine the concept of worlds fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on worlds fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display-what people were looking at and how they were looking.
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