ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World'S Columbian Exposition, Ferris Wheel, Unintended Consequences
May 1st, 2018
● The World's fair and the Armory Show
○ World's Fair-showcase technological and agricultural innovations and
progress; 1851-1964
○ Reinforce ethnic and racial hierarchies through methods of display
○ Investment in revivalism in architecture-The use of visual styles and vocab that
consciously echo the past
● Original one-Great Exhibition of 1861 (London)
● Appropriated and borrowed from the city in order to make them into civic
centers/museums-weren't intended to last as long as they did; house works of art,
inventions, agricultural items; not built for their current intentions
● Iage World's Colubia 9positio Chicago
○ White cit
○ Iestet i progress-the idea that the world gets better with each turning
year; debatable*
○ Chicago 1893 world's fair creates the first ferris wheel
○ 9tertaiet alue to the orld’s fair
○ Interesting invention by accident-ice cream cone
● Ideas of display and issues of reinforcing ethnic and racial hierarchy
○ Recreations of exotic places and objects from all around the world-i.e Japanese
Tea Garden, Mayan Ruins; orientalism, otherness, recreation of the exotic;
○ The idea of Japa reduced to just idea of gardes
○ Pushing forward a stereotype
● Willia Mckile’s last speech delivered September 5, 1901-Pan American Exposition,
NY
○ Dark side of fairs, people put on display
○ McKinley assassinated the next day; creates a lot of safety and security concern
○ Unintended consequence of the particular world fair
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● Elephant-Topsy; was on display; steps on somebody accidentally-choked, burned,
electrocuted by a huge display of animal cruelty; public execution; earliest American
films of the execution of Topsy;
● Aerial view print of Pan-American Exposition-not walkable within one day; need a map
to navigate; would need to visit several times in order to view everything
● Claude Moet-La Greouillere-idea of leisure activities
○ Brush strokes melt in your eyes
● Joseph Stella-Luna Park 1913
○ Impressionist
○ Paints the effects of light at night
○ Clear sketching-no heavily defined borders
○ Famous attractions on the Coney Island boardwalk-built to look like an aspiring
palace-first amusement park to have electrical lights
■ Entertainment at night with bright lights
■ To keep visitors continuously on the move>end up at a completely
different place-formatted path
○ Attracted to the speed and dynamism of Luna Park-spectacular landscape that
transports you to a different time and place
○ Battle of Lights, Coe Islad, Mardi Gras>abstractio, depictig sigage
■ Hard to attach your eyes to any one piece-represents fragmentation of
everyday experience like while you're at an amusement park
○ Brookl bridge-has artistic investment in architecture;
■ Dynamic depiction of the Manhattan bridge;
■ Breaking up the picture frame-technique of flattening and
fragmentation;
■ Breaking up space, distort viewers sense of space
■ His religion becomes a secular one- about public progress and
modernism
■ Steel cables were a brand new technology;
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Document Summary
The world"s fair and the armory show. World"s fair-showcase technological and agricultural innovations and progress; 1851-1964. Reinforce ethnic and racial hierarchies through methods of display. Investment in revivalism in architecture-the use of visual styles and vocab that consciously echo the past. Appropriated and borrowed from the city in order to make them into civic centers/museums-weren"t intended to last as long as they did; house works of art, inventions, agricultural items; not built for their current intentions. I(cid:290)(cid:362)est(cid:289)e(cid:290)t i(cid:290) progress(cid:908)-the idea that the world gets better with each turning year; debatable* Chicago 1893 world"s fair creates the first ferris wheel. Ideas of display and issues of reinforcing ethnic and racial hierarchy. Recreations of exotic places and objects from all around the world-i. e japanese. Tea garden, mayan ruins; orientalism, otherness, recreation of the exotic; The idea of japa(cid:290) reduced to just idea of (cid:907)garde(cid:290)s(cid:908) Willia(cid:289) mcki(cid:290)le(cid:369)"s last speech delivered september 5, 1901-pan american exposition, Dark side of fairs, people put on display.
