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The great World’s Fairs and Expositions staged around the world since the mid-19th 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<\/em><\/strong> tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian period to the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Fair World tells the story of these extraordinary exhibitions from the Victorian period to the present day.
Introduction
\nThe Origin and Meaning of the Exposition Medium
\nExhibitions before Expos
\nThe Formation of the First Expositions
\nJustifying Expositions
\nMoney, Politics and the Masses
\nMoney
\nThe British Organisational Model
\nThe French Way
\nAmerican Business
\nCold War Ways and Post-Modern Methods
\nPolitics and the Entertaining of the Masses
\nGender and Display: The Women’s Buildings
\nThe Myth and Reality of Profits
\nImperial Display
\nBritain’s Exhibitions: Industry and Empire
\nThe European Empires on Display
\nJapan’s Imperial Ambition
\nAmerican Expansion
\nHuman Show cases
\nPeople as Entertainment
\nParis and the Growth of the Practice
\nThe British Displays
\nEvolutionism and the Peopled Displays
\nThe Villages of America
\nConsuming in the Streets of the World
\nAmbassadors on Site
\nNational Profile
\nDisplay and National Identity
\nFrenchness
\nBritain and England
\nAmerica and the Problem of the New
\nParis in 1937, New York in 1939
\nPastiche, Boycott, and the Post-War World
\nDesigning an Ephemeral World
\nModernity, Design, Expo
\nThe Great Exhibition and High Victorian Design
\nDesign and the Poor
\nThe Example from Outside
\nArchitecture and Engineering
\nHistoricism and Art Nouveau
\nArt Deco and the Modern Movement
\nSpace Age Modern, International Modern, Post-Modern
\nThe Meaning of Art
\nDefining and Displaying the Fine Arts
\nBeaux-Arts and Avant Garde: the French Displays
\nBritish Art and the Expositions
\nThe Growth of American Art
\nArt from Outside: Africa and Oceania
\nAfter the War
\nPostscript
\nNotes
\nIndex
\nAcknowledgements
\nBibliography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21583],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7329","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"author-by-author-paul-greenhalgh","8":"publisher-papadakis","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFair World - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/fair-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fair World - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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. 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