Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader
Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader

Author: Celia Pearce

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1312115874

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Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.

World of Fairs
World of Fairs

Author: Robert W. Rydell

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993-11

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0226732371

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In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.

Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions
Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions

Author: John E. Findling

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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This encyclopedia contains individual histories of each of the nearly 100 World's Fairs and expositions held in more than 20 countries since 1851. This revised and updated second edition of the book originally published as ""A Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions"" in 1990 includes new entries, including essays on the World's Fairs that will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2008 and in Shanghai, China, in 2010. Many of the original essays have been revised and expanded. The topics covered include goods, tourism, architecture, art and culture, and ""exhibition fatigue.""Each fair history includes its own annotated bibliography which provides, when possible, the location of relevant primary sources and comments on the quality of secondary sources. Several appendices provide information on the Bureau of International Expositions, as well as fair statistics, fair officials, fairs that did not qualify for inclusion, and fairs that were planned but never held. The book includes a foreword by Vicente G. Loscertales, the secretary general of the Bureau of International Expositions.

Fair America
Fair America

Author: Robert W. Rydell

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1588343421

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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.

Fair World
Fair World

Author: Paul Greenhalgh

Publisher: Fastprint Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906506094

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A history of world's fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010.

And Hay Became Holy
And Hay Became Holy

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Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781737306801

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It's time to enter into the most highly anticipated waiting period of our liturgical lives: Advent. Join us as we journey with the ox and donkey, shepherds and angels, magi, and the Holy Family itself to the manger scene to worship Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.We offer you And Hay Became Holy as your companion this Advent, to explore your invitation to worship, to become and grow into a person of worship, always in a posture of Adoration of God. Each week we focus on a different group invited to the manger scene, as we all are, to accept again and again God's invitation.Week flows //SUNDAYS we focus on our communal worship as the Mystical Body of Christ, encouraging you to make or take a keepsake from Mass to serve as a reminder of God's grace moving through your life.MONDAYS we focus on personal worship with Olivia Spears as narratorTUESDAYS + THURSDAYS we read and sit with Sacred Scripture to answer two questions + Visio Divina prompts with sacred artWEDNESDAYS + FRIDAYS stories from Sarah Rose, Gina Fensterer, Leana Bowler, and Bobbi RolSATURDAYS we focus on domestic worship by praying the psalmsOur hope // Wherever you are on your journey of deepening your faith and relationship with Our Lord, we want to prompt, guide, and pray for you in this spectacular season.Foreword by Father Mark-Mary Ames, CFREdited by Nell O'Leary JD and Susanna Spencer MA in TheologyQuestions by Beth DavisDesign by Michelle SloughProject managed by Jenna Guizar