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Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia

Bruno Giberti

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Description:Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the planning of America's first important world's 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 U.S. 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 world's fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on world's fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display - what people were looking at and how they were looking.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia. To get started finding Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Designing the Centennial is an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the planning of America's first important world's 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 U.S. 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 world's fairs, contrasting the 1876 event with other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exhibitions and related institutions. The author goes beyond previous works on world's fairs by investigating the design process and by considering the nature of display - what people were looking at and how they were looking.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia. To get started finding Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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