Expanding Nationalisms at World's Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851-1915 (Routledge Research in Art History)

Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity, and Exchange, 1851–1915 introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing nationalism, imperialism, expanding trade and the emergence of a consumer society. Its chapters, written by both established and emerging scholars, are global in scope, and demonstrate specific networks of communication and exchange among designers, manufacturers, markets and nations on the modern world stage from the second half of the nineteenth century into the beginning of the twentieth. Within the overarching theme of nationalism and internationalism as revealed at world’s fairs, the book’s essays will engage a more complex understanding of ideas of competition and community in an age of emergent industrial capitalism, and will investigate the nuances, contradictions and marginalized voices that lie beneath the surface of unity, progress, and global expansion. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction: communities real and imagined: world’s fairs and political meanings 1 East meets West: re-presenting the Arab-Islamic world at the nineteenth-century world’s fairs 2 From London to Paris (via Cairo): the world expositions and the making of a modern architect, 1862–1867 3 The Belgian reception of Italy at the 1885 Antwerp World Exhibition: converging artistic, economic, and political strategies on display 4 A Danish spectacle: balancing national interests at the 1888 Nordic Exhibition of Industry, Agriculture, and Art in Copenhagen 5 A neoclassical translation: the Hôôden at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition 6 Paris, 1900: the Musée Centennal du Mobilier et de la Décoration and the formulation of a nineteenth-century national design identity 7 “Our country has never been as popular as it is now!”: Finland at the 1900 Exposition Universelle 8 “A revelation of grace and pride”: cultural memory and international aspiration in early twentieth-century Hungarian design 9 When the local is the global: case studies in early twentieth-century Chinese exposition projects 10 The 1910 Centenary Exhibition in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay: manufacturing fine art and cultural diplomacy in South America Bibliography Index This book introduces the subject of international exhibitions to art and design historians and a wider audience as a resource for understanding the broad and varied political meanings of design during a period of rapid industrialization, developing nationalism, imperialism, expanding trade, and the emergence of a consumer society. Edited By David Raizman And Ethan Robey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.