Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of World Exhibitions as a Didactic Phenomenon (1798-1851-1970)010 Publishers, 2001 - 846 pages |
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aesthetic American architects architecture attractive bition British building catalogue ceremony Champ de Mars Chevalier classes classification Cole committees competition construction countries Crystal Palace culture décor didactic display economic Emperor ethnographic example exhi exhibition palace exhibitors Exner Expo Exposition Exposition Universelle Fair Corp festivities fête foreign Fournel France French function future galleries ground habitat Haltern Ibid ideas ideological Imperial Commission industrial exhibitions innovations Japanese jury l'Exposition l'industrie labour layout LePlay LePlay's machines manufacturers means ment Michel Chevalier Minister modern monumental museum objects ODIC official organisers Osaka Palais Paris park participating pavilion Picard plaza political presentation Prince professional programme realised reconstructions Royal Commission social society spatial spatial planning specimens symbolic tableaux vivants theme exhibitions tion trade traditional Trocadéro trophies universelle urban urban planning visitors workers world exhibition Wyatt
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Page 522 - Heaven itself has ordained, and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 700 - ... the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.
Page 700 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which indeed all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind ; not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product...
Page 700 - Whilst formerly the greatest mental energies strove at universal knowledge, and that knowledge was confined to the few, now they are directed on specialities, and in these, again, even to the minutest points...
Page 700 - Gentlemen — the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new startingpoint from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Page 700 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
Page 703 - Science discovers these laws of power, motion, and transformation ; industry applies them to the raw matter, which the earth yields us in abundance, but which becomes valuable only by knowledge.
Page 700 - So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world. His reason being created after the image of God, he has to use it to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation, and, by making these laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to his use ; himself a divine instrument.
Page 700 - ... result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities. The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are...
Page 703 - The Exhibition having relations far more extensive with the industrial occupations and products of mankind than with the Fine Arts, the limits of the present Class have been defined with considerable strictness. Those departments of art which are, in a degree, connected with mechanical...