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

Released on by Celia Pearce
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  • Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader Book Detail

  • Author : Celia Pearce
  • Release Date : 2014
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 560
  • ISBN 13 : 1312115874
  • File Size : 79,79 MB
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Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader by Celia Pearce PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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