Cultural Change and Shifting Views of America
Cultural Change and Shifting Views of America Tina Hudaifa ARTS/125 – Pop Culture and the Arts Professor: Kevin Ballard April 20, 2015
Cultural Change and Shifting View in America
Many consider The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair as a day that paved the way out of traditional life into modernization. It was considered one of the first cases in history where communication technologies, marketing strategies, and urban planning all interplayed at once. The Ashcan School marked the beginning of when artists began looking past any social constraints in a stylistic manner. They were encouraged to do this by getting out of their comfort zone and venturing into urban areas in order to capture the diversity in neighborhoods that exist. Image Communicated by Innovations and Buildings Presented in 1983 Chicago’s World Fair
“The Chicago World’s Fair is best understood on performance terms as a grand theatre where a forthcoming century’s understandings of modernism, migration, and culture were rehearsed” (Doss, 2002, p. 19). The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair was held in honor of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America as well as a celebration of Chicago’s recovery from the Great Fire of 1871. It was intended to convey the social, political, and economic innovations of the city’s aristocrats who proposed in financial regain in a time period during an economic depression in the attempts to outdo Paris’s Universal Exposition (1889) in regards to profits and attendance figures. The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair attempted to pay tribute to how American culture has progressed over the years and the commitment to pave the way to an imminent developed century. The
Cultural Change and Shifting View in America
Many consider The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair as a day that paved the way out of traditional life into modernization. It was considered one of the first cases in history where communication technologies, marketing strategies, and urban planning all interplayed at once. The Ashcan School marked the beginning of when artists began looking past any social constraints in a stylistic manner. They were encouraged to do this by getting out of their comfort zone and venturing into urban areas in order to capture the diversity in neighborhoods that exist. Image Communicated by Innovations and Buildings Presented in 1983 Chicago’s World Fair
“The Chicago World’s Fair is best understood on performance terms as a grand theatre where a forthcoming century’s understandings of modernism, migration, and culture were rehearsed” (Doss, 2002, p. 19). The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair was held in honor of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America as well as a celebration of Chicago’s recovery from the Great Fire of 1871. It was intended to convey the social, political, and economic innovations of the city’s aristocrats who proposed in financial regain in a time period during an economic depression in the attempts to outdo Paris’s Universal Exposition (1889) in regards to profits and attendance figures. The 1893 Chicago’s World Fair attempted to pay tribute to how American culture has progressed over the years and the commitment to pave the way to an imminent developed century. The
References: Doss, E. (2002, April). Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art. Cary, NC, USA: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from ebrary, 289 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations. (2015). Statue of liberty. Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/307