The Artistic Guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition
Author | : Columbian Art Co |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Bookbinding |
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Author | : Columbian Art Co |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Bookbinding |
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Author | : John Joseph Flinn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Exhibitions |
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Author | : Charles Eugene Banks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
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Author | : Joseph M. Di Cola |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0738594415 |
What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, DC, in its bid as host a coup for the Windy City. The site finally selected for the fair was Jackson Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a marshy area covered with dense, wild vegetation. Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root were selected as chief architects, creating the famous White City. The fair featured several different thematic areas: the Great Buildings, Foreign Buildings, State Buildings, and the Midway Plaisance, a nearly mile-long area that featured exotic exhibits. The exposition also showcased the world s first Ferris Wheel and introduced fairgoers to new sensations like Cracker Jack, Pabst Beer, and ragtime music. The World s Columbian Exposition, covering 633 acres, opened on May 1, 1893. Admission prices were 50cents for adults, 25cents for children under 12 years of age, and free for children under six. Unfortunately, by 1896, most of the fair s buildings had been removed or destroyed, but this collection takes readers on a tour of the grounds as they looked in 1893."
Author | : Wanda Corn |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520947460 |
This handsomely illustrated book is a welcome addition to the history of women during America’s Gilded Age. Wanda M. Corn takes as her topic the grand neo-classical Woman’s Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a structure celebrating modern woman’s progress in education, arts, and sciences. Looking closely at the paintings and sculptures women artists made to decorate the structure, including the murals by Mary Cassatt and Mary MacMonnies, Corn uncovers an unspoken but consensual program to visualize a history of the female sex and promote an expansion of modern woman’s opportunities. Beautifully written, with informative sidebars by Annelise K. Madsen and artist biographies by Charlene G. Garfinkle, this volume illuminates the originality of the public images female artists created in 1893 and inserts them into the complex discourse of fin de siècle woman’s politics. The Woman’s Building offered female artists an unprecedented opportunity to create public art and imagine an historical narrative that put women rather than men at its center.
Author | : Trumbull White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : World's Columbian Exposition |
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Author | : David J. Bertuca |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313266441 |
In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition had a profound impact on urban planning and the Beaux-Arts period of American architecture. The fair introduced the Ferris Wheel, Cracker Jacks, and fiberglass. Yet today, except for one building and a grassy park, all that remains is the legacy of printed material dispersed throughout the country. This reference guide, intended for historians, librarians, and collectors, provides access to that legacy. The introduction summarizes the Exposition's influence. The bibliography, arranged to allow researchers to browse topics broadly, describes over 6,000 books, journal articles, and other materials. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials is also included. Newspaper and magazine articles, books, dissertations, drawings, photographs, maps, letters, documents, and collections of memorabilia—these provide the enduring heritage of the fair. This guide provides information on all aspects of that heritage. In addition to the bibilography itself, an extensive introduction discusses the influence the fair has had on America. Illustrations provide a visual portrayal of the fair. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials provides an inventory of each collection, along with addresses and telephone numbers. This book is the only comprehensive reference guide to the World's Columbian Exposition.
Author | : Charles Eugene Banks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2016-03-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783741118395 |
The Artistic Guide to Chicago and the Worlds Columbian Exposition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future."
Author | : Charles Eugene Banks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Bookbinding |
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