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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"World's Fairs"”.
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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: Japan, China, and the United States at World's Fairs 1867-1915
… the United States, China, and Japan at world’s fairs. My project serves two purposes. First, I propose that the control of representational legibility, the disciplinary function of new epistemologies, and the material reproduction of hegemonic ideologies were expositionary tools through …
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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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Life after mega-events : strategically reusing legacy parks
… mixed legacy of staging "mega-events" such as World's Fairs (or Expos) and Olympic Games. Host cities regularly invest billions of dollars building the facilities and supporting infrastructure needed to accommodate millions of visitors over a fixed period of time. In doing so, they also consume …
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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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The world in the network: the Interop trade show, Carl Malamud's Internet 1996 Exposition, and the politics of internet commercialization
… of the military-industrial research world played in the physical expansion of the Internet. It does so by examining the social practices and processes of the semi-annual "Interop" computer-networking trade show, and one affiliated "exposition." Beginning in 1987, and for nearly a …
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Tropical Islands; or, how the architectural interior became the primary site of aesthetic mediation
… was a guest at the Tropical Islands Resort, the world's largest indoor water park. While inside, I ate the special at every one of its restaurants, drank every signature cocktail advertised, explored its perimeter in a hot-air balloon, went on all the water slides (twice), lounged in front of and …
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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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Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
… transfer and exchange, and new explorations into world's fairs, international Japonism, and the Meiji arts. It is the first monograph to study the inter-relation of Japonismus and allegory in Klimt’s art. </p>
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Bonsai imperium : plant capitalism in the U.S. and Japan, 1853-1924
… taste for Japanese goods as popularized at the World's Fairs of 1876, 1893, and 1904. In Japan, the newly established commercial nursery system and manufacturing and cultural policies of the new Meiji government, intended to establish Japan as a modern nation-state, supported the supply and …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing imaginaries of the world that were shaped by the experience of war, and that have received little …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… in the twentieth century such as America's World's Fairs, superhero mythology, popular culture iconography, etc. and illustrate the ways in which they served as cultural, social and historical precursors to hip hop aesthetics. Chapter 1 provides an introduction, which includes a definition …
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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 …