http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqMS6PXyp5MA
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_1898_empires_colonies_territory.png
Reading response: The two websites represent a view of the world. How do they do it and how are they related? Reflect on the perspectives and your idea of representing the world of today.
Homework: 2
Reading: Whitney Chadwick, “Separate but Unequal: Women’s Sphere and the New Art,” Reader article or review Carol Duncan’s article from Introduction to Visual Culture
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Write: Reflect with particular attention to race and gender on the way World Fairs promote particular ideologies. or
How does Duncan’s argument about the museum relate to the discussions about the Fairs?
Homework3:
Read the article by Timothy Mitchell, “Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order” in: Grasping the world : the idea of the museum / edited by Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago. Call Number AM7 G58 2004
Related reading [optional
Vapour and Steam: The Victorian Turkish Bath, Homosocial Health, and Male Bodies on Display
John Potvin
Journal of Design History
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of Design History Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3527239 or Write:
How do Eurocentrism and Orientalism get reinforced by the World Fairs? Address Mitchell’s position and your own.
