Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898-1899 (eBook, PDF)

Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Redaktion: Katz, Wendy Jean

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Produktbeschreibung

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omahäs key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation¿s place in bringing ¿civilization¿ to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World¿s Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event¿s place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world¿s fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496204387
• Artikelnr.: 55972036

Autorenporträt

Wendy Jean Katz is an associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati and the coeditor of Regionalism and the Humanities (Nebraska, 2009).        

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction: America’s Jewel in the Crown
Robert W. Rydell
1. “The Great American Desert Is No More”
Sarah J. Moore
2. The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition Commemorative Stamp
Issue
Bonnie M. Miller
3. Women and Art in the Passing Show
Wendy Jean Katz
4. Trilby Goes Naked and Native on the Midway
Emily Godbey
5. Condensed Loveliness
Tracey Jean Boisseau
6. Indigenous Identities in the Imperialist Imagination
Akim Reinhardt
7. Exposition Anthropology
Nancy J. Parezo
8. Hawai¿i and the Philippines at the Omaha Expositions
Stacy L. Kamehiro and Danielle B. Crawford
Afterword: The Art of the Historian
Timothy Schaffert
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index