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Chargement... San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915par Laura A. Ackley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The book is very well written and is a fantastic quality production. Exquisite illustrations, beautifully laid out and a nice balance between excellent text and nicely done (if sometimes a bit small) photographs. ( ) Very text heavy! It’s definitely more of a history book than an art book, though samples of its art is includeds. I read this at the same time that I read a more art heavy book about the same fair: Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition. (I did not read every word of this book as I usually do, but I read enough to get a lot out of reading it and to have an opinion worth sharing.) I do love World’s Fairs. The only two I’ve attended are the 1964 New York, U.S.A. World’s Fair and the 1986 Vancouver, B.C., Canada World’s Fairs, both on numerous visits over many days/weeks. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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2015 marks the centennial year of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, when host city San Francisco emerged from the ashes of earthquake and fire as a center of beauty and progress. On the Presidio's waterfront and in what is now the Marina District, courtyards, formal gardens, and eleven Beaux-Arts palaces made up a miniature city resplendent in tones of golden-orange, copper green, cerulean, and "Pompeiian red." Each palace hosted a thrilling array of exhibits and events that showed off the young century's achievements and possibilities. Over it all, the forty-three-story Tower of Jewels cast the reflected light of one hundred thousand pieces of colored glass.This lavishly illustrated volume is as much a triumph as the fair itself.San Francisco's Jewel City takes readers on an in-depth tour of the PPIE, revealing the dramas of constructing the fair and the displays of culture and industry that awaited within the exposition walls: electrical home appliances, rides in a homemade airplane, a world tour of twenty-one international pavilions, luminous radium crystals, and, of course, a model of the world-changing Panama Canal. Along the way, we meet famous (and infamous) visitors, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, and BuffaloBill Cody. Historian Laura A. Ackley's compelling text is unparalleled in its breadth of scope and richness of detail, providing social and political context for the fair and offering insight into its legacy today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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