Empire on Display San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915【電子書籍】[ Sarah J. Moore ]

＜p＞The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. ＜em＞Empire on Display＜/em＞ is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The exposition displayed evidenceーvisual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideologicalーof America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. Representations of the Panama Canal play a central role in Moore’s argument, much as they did at the fair itself. Embodying a manly empire of global dimensions, the canal was depicted in statues and a gigantic working replica, as well as on commemorative stamps, maps, murals, postcards, meda．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る