Designing The Centennial: A History Of The 1876 International Exhibition

Description: Designing The Centennial: A History Of The 1876 International Exhibition In Philadelphia, Bruno Giberti 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 US 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. Paperback Used, very good condition

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Book Title: Designing The Centennial

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Publication Name: Designing the Centennial : a History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia

Language: English

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Year: 2008

Subject: Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Marketing / General, General, History / General, Sociology / Urban

Item Weight: 16 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Bruno Giberti

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: Architecture, Social Science, Business & Economics

Item Width: 6 in

Series: Material Worlds Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback