Item Number: 133511 Title: Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940 : Great Exhibitions in the Margins Author: Filipova, Marta (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781472432810 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 358pp., 51 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction, Marta Filipová; A Capital In the margins: concepts for a Budapest Universal Exhibition between 1867 and 1917, Miklós Székely; Barcelona’s Universal Exhibition of 1888: an atypical case of a Great Exhibition, Marina Muńoz; A marginal exhibition? The all-German exhibition in Berlin, 1844, John R. Davis; ‘Witness to the momentous significance of German labour in Bohemia’. Exhibitions in the German-speaking regions of Bohemia before the First World War, Tomáš Okurka; The nation for itself: the 1896 Hungarian millennium and the 1906 Romanian National General Exhibition, Samuel Albert; The forefront of English commercial centres. Wolverhampton’s exhibitions of 1869 and 1902, Marta Filipová; The nature and the state at the Independence Centennial International Exhibition: Rio de Janeiro, 1922, Livia Rezende; The Ghent Universal and International Exhibition of 1913. Reconciling historicism, modernity and exoticism, Davy Depelchin; Old London, Old Edinburgh: constructing historic cities, Wilson Smith; A red-letter day: evaluating progress in New Zealand’s art at Dunedin’s international exhibitions 1865-1889, Rebecca Rice; International exhibitions and urban aspirations: Launceston, Tasmania, in the 19th century, Anne Neale; ‘Urbi et orbi’: decentralization and design in Nancy’s International Exposition of eastern France 1909, Claire O’Mahony; Merging peripheries and centres: the transnational interconnectedness of the Helsinki National Exhibition of 1876, Taina Syrjämaa; The last exhibition of the Italian colonial empire. Naples 1938-1940, Giovanni Arena; International ambitions of an exhibition at the margin: Japan’s 1903 Osaka Exposition, Jeffer Daykin.
We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
© Copyright 1996-2016
Michael Shamansky, Bookseller Inc.
Design & Hosting by
Ives & Shaughnessy Web Information Services