Meet Me At The Fair: A World's Fair Reader
by Bobby Schweizer /
2014 / English / PDF
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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. 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.
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. 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.
