Art and Progress.: Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions

Maria Joao Castro

doi:10.1201/9781351242691

Art and Progress. Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions

Maria Joao Castro

CHAM - Centro de Humanidades

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Abstract

In the mid-19th century, an ambition for universality, a desire to spread knowledge of the benefits brought by industrialisation, and faith in progress meant that a need arose to create an exhibition structure that could bring together the new urban experience – and so the great exhibitions were born. The ‘Universal Exhibition’ became a platform where the results of development on various levels, and in different registers, could be exhibited in a compact fashion. It brought under one roof the most glorious aspects of the 19th century. Exhibiting everything from agriculture to mining, from machinery to art, it brought the public a view of the human cosmos immersed in a new movement, finding its raison d’être in one of the main identifiers of the age: the birth of the phenomenon of the masses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Progress(es), Theories and Practices
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI 2017), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy
Editors	Mário S. Ming Kong, Maria do Rosário Monteiro, Maria João Pereira Neto
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	309-314
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781351242691
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351242691
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017
Event	3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy - Swabian Castle; Sala Murat; University of Trento, Bari, Italy Duration: 4 Nov 2017 → 7 Nov 2017 Conference number: 3

Conference

Conference	3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy
Abbreviated title	PHI 2017
Country	Italy
City	Bari
Period	4/11/17 → 7/11/17

Keywords

colonial
exhibitions
XIX century

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Castro, M. J. (2017). Art and Progress. Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions. In M. S. M. Kong, M. D. R. Monteiro, & M. J. P. Neto (Eds.), Progress(es), Theories and Practices: Proceedings of the 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI 2017), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy (pp. 309-314). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351242691

Castro, Maria Joao. / Art and Progress. Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions. Progress(es), Theories and Practices: Proceedings of the 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI 2017), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy. editor / Mário S. Ming Kong, ; Maria do Rosário Monteiro ; Maria João Pereira Neto. London : CRC Press, 2017. pp. 309-314

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Castro, MJ 2017, Art and Progress. Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions. in MSM Kong, MDR Monteiro & MJP Neto (eds), Progress(es), Theories and Practices: Proceedings of the 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI 2017), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy. CRC Press, London, pp. 309-314, 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy, Bari, Italy, 4/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351242691

Art and Progress. Portuguese Colonial Representations in the Great World Exhibitions. / Castro, Maria Joao.

Progress(es), Theories and Practices: Proceedings of the 3rd International Multidisciplinary Congress on Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI 2017), October 4-7, 2017, Bari, Italy. ed. / Mário S. Ming Kong,; Maria do Rosário Monteiro; Maria João Pereira Neto. London : CRC Press, 2017. p. 309-314.

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