Main entry:

Greenhalgh, Paul, 1955 October 21-

Title & Author:

Fair world : a history of world's fairs and expositions, from London to Shanghai, 1851-2010 / Paul Greenhalgh.

Publication:

Winterbourne, Berkshire, U.K. : Papadakis, 2011.

Description:

282 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 282) and index.
The origin and meaning of the exposition medium : Exhibitions before expos ; The formation of the first expositions ; Justifying expositions -- Money, politics, and the masses : Money ; The British organisational model ; The French way ; American business ; Cold War ways and post-modern methods ; Politics and the entertaining of the masses ; Gender and display: the women's buildings ; The myth and reality of profits -- Imperial display : Britain's exhibitions: industry and empire ; The European empires on display ; Japan's imperial ambition ; American expansion -- Human showcases : People as entertainment ; Paris and the growth of the practice ; The British displays ; Evolutionism and the peopled displays ; The villages of America ; Consuming in the streets of the world ; Ambassadors on site -- National profile : Display and national identity ; Frenchness ; Britain and England ; America the problem of the new ; Paris in 1937, New York in 1939 ; Pastiche, boycott, and the post-war world -- Designing an ephemeral world : Modernity, design, expo ; The great exhibition and high Victorian design ; Design and the poor ; The example form outside ; Architecture and engineering ; Historicism and Art Nouveau ; Art Deco and the modern movement ; Space age modern, international modern, post-modern -- The meaning of art : Defining and displaying the fine arts ; Beaux-arts and avant garde: the French displays ; British art and the expositions ; The growth of American art ; Art from outside: Africa and Oceania ; After the war.

Summary:

The great World's Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-nineteenth century were among the largest and most dramatic cultural events ever staged. In both beneficial and detrimental ways, they affected the lives of tens of millions of people. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian period to the present day.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9781906506094
1906506094

Subject:

Weltausstellung.
Exhibitions History 19th century.
Exhibitions History 20th century.
Trade shows History 19th century.
Trade shows History 20th century.
Salons professionnels Histoire 19e siècle.
Salons professionnels Histoire 20e siècle.
Exhibitions.
Trade shows.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275667
Call No.: BIB 210002
Status: Available