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The need for peoples to come together to celebrate their industry, demonstrate their skills and to trade the results of this industry has existed sin ce man first organized himself into socially cohes ive units.This eventually found universal expressi ion in the extended series of international exhibi tions which began in London in 1851 and has contin

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"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

The first comprehensive study of the diverse role and impact of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, drawing together two decades of research to create a broader understanding of the step-change in image making and distribution represented by The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations - the genesis of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.0While the Great Exhibition has received a variety of examinations, its role in exhibiting and furthering the cause and exploitation of photography and its impact on illustration has been largely underappreciated. More broadly, 1851 saw a massive change in information management: in the creation and dissemination of visually based graphic information characterized by images of the building, its contents and their display that collectively constituted the Great Exhibition. Photography played a critical role in this quantum leap.00Exhibition: V&A Photography Centre, London, UK (October 2018).

In a bold new look at the Modern Art era, Brettell explores the works of such artists as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as well as lesser-known figures--in relation to expansion, colonialism, national and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. 140 illustrations, 75 in color.

A captivating book which sets out to investigate different languages of creativity associated with food: from painting to design, photography to fashion, architecture to cinema, and music to sculpture. An exceptional iconographic exhibition, curated by the famous art critic Germano Celant, which explores the intimate relationship between art and food over the past 150 years; this book has a huge quantity of images on food associated with classic and contemporary art, East and West. The internationally acclaimed art critic Germano Celant assembled a team of contributors from all over the world to describe the various aspects of the rituals of food in more than 60 interesting essays, accompanied by several precious images. The book was issued for the important exhibition at the Triennale di Milano during the Universal Exhibition, Expo 2015 in Milan.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.