Images of the nation, progress and technology: the World Exposition of Philadelphia 1876 Sandra Jatahy Pesavento

Authors

  • Sandra Jatahy Pesavento Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47141994000100011

Keywords:

World Expositions, Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia, 1876), World Expositions and Brazilian identity

Abstract

After laying down her assumptions on images as social representations and on World's Fairs as a privileged scene for displaying the hermeneutics of reality engendered by the capitalist transformation ot the world, along with the bourgeois ideology and the utopian IIongings of the epoch, the A. briefly describes the main features of Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition in 1876. She then com ments the presence of a Brazilian pavillion and the visit of Brazil's Emperor, D.Pedro II. She finally traces a farallel between divergent meanings of the Exhibition as related to the successful auto-image o the "American dream in opposition to the contradictions of Brazilian identity, vainly endeavouring to incorporate the new ethics of free mechanical labour in a dependent proslavery society.

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Published

1994-01-01

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Section

Material Culture Studies

How to Cite

PESAVENTO, Sandra Jatahy. Images of the nation, progress and technology: the World Exposition of Philadelphia 1876 Sandra Jatahy Pesavento . Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 2, n. 1, p. 151–168, 1994. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-47141994000100011. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/5298.. Acesso em: 16 may. 2024.