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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"World's Fair"”.
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The influence of St. Louis 1904 World's Fair on Japonisme that appeared in periodicals
… by showing its traditional arts and crafts in World's fairs from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century. In addition, victories in the Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese war increased the Japanese position in Asia. As Japan was becoming politically more influential in the world, …
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The construction of a war-time national identity : the Japanese Pavilion at New York's World's Fair, 1939/40
The period between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II was the age of international expositions for the countries of the European and American continents. Events were launched every few years in various cities, in order to demonstrate the level of cultural sophistication or technological …
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Translational Architecture
… cultural-specific building without it becoming a World's Fair pavilion or a cultural cliché. World's Fair pavilions often represent just a moment within a nation's ongoing architectural discourse, as is fitting for their temporary status. Some embassies are cultural clichés, which look like how …
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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… identity at the Irish Villages of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. Conceptualized and designed by two British philanthropists and businesswomen, the Irish Villages presented an Irishness shaped by Ireland’s long history of colonial rule. For Irish Americans living in the United States during …
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The aviator's (re)vision of the world : an aesthetics of ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
… designer Norman Bel Geddes for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Futurama's status as the cause celebre of the 1939 World's Fair derived largely from its theatrical technique of seeing: spectators literally gazed down upon an American utopia as if they were aviators in a low-flying airplane. My …
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
… Natural History's fossil halls, Depression-Era world's fair exhibits, the contested construction of a Pleistocene Park at the La Brea Tar Pits of Los Angeles, Sinclair Oil Company's use of dinosaurs as spokes-creatures for oil culture, and the dinosaurs that currently draw visitors to young …
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The problem with harmony : constructs of proportionality, music and the Modulor in the 1950's
… of Le Corbusier that was constructed at the World's Fair in Brussels in 1958.
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Sir Stafford Northcote: A Political Study to 1874
… administrative, parliamentary, and electoral affairs. Along with hitherto unknown involvement in a newspaper for the middle classes and a surprisingly close relationship with the Queen, Northcote also had a key role in repealing the old Navigation Acts in 1849; in organizing the Great Exhibition …
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Architecture's grand tourism : the emergence of Prishtina within a global discipline
This Thesis proposes a 2015 World's Fair in Prishtina, Kosovo, to redefine the relationship between tourists and local places. Globalization has created an explosion of world tourism; however, it has homogenized the global landscape and therefore the tourist experience. To counteract this erosion …
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Architecture for revision
… Park, in Queens. As the site of two World's Fairs, in 1939 and 1964-5, this park has been the locus of cyclical remaking in successive images of projective corporate optimism. Today, there exist twinned structural and cultural imperatives to disassemble the New York State Pavilion, …
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An Enlarging Influence: Women of New Orleans, Julia Ward Howe, and the Woman's Department at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884-1885
… investigates the first Woman's Department at a World's Fair in the Deep South. It documents conflicts and reconciliations and the reassessments that post-bellum women made during the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, the region's foremost but atypical city. It …
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Identification of compounds responsible for the characteristic “soy sauce” flavor of traditional Chinese liquor
… received gold awards at the 1915 San Francisco “World's Fair” and at the 12th International Food Fair in Paris in 1986, which is testimony to the outstanding flavor and premium quality of this liquor product. However, significant as it is economically and culturally to China, knowledge about the …
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Fiendish Dreams - Reverse Engineering Modern Architecture
… the idealized White City of the Chicago World's Fair (1893), that inspired the architecture of Coney Island's Dreamland (1905-1911), which beckoned to McCay as he drew from his house just across Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. The capricious side of this Architecture emerged in McCay's …
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Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art of Francisco Vargas in 19th Century New Orleans
… represented Louisiana's agriculture at two World's Fairs in New Orleans and Buffalo. Francisco received a contract from Mississippi Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase International Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Though the family's …
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Turin 1911 ‘La favolosa Esposizione’: From Knowledge to Dissemination Using Integrated Geomatics Methods
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond
… to General Washington and its appearance in two World’s Fairs, the house gained further popularity around the American Centennial. This thesis provides the most expansive history of the house’s impact on American architecture to date and is the first to connect the house to both the Greenhouse at …
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"We Weren't Kidding": Prediction as Ideology in American Pulp Science Fiction, 1938-1949
In 1971, Isaac Asimov observed in humanity, a science-important society. For this he credited the man who had been his editor in the 1940s during the period known as the golden age of American science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr. Campbell was editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, the magazine …
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Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85
At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the …