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World’s Fairs from 1851-1967: The History, Evolution, and Highlights in Four Parts with Dr. Jennie Hirsh
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Led by an expert on modern and contemporary art and architecture, Dr. Jennie Hirsh, this lecture will introduce learners to the themes and scope of world's fairs through some of the most interesting examples in history. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased understanding of not only individual fairs that that serve as case studies but also a sense of how these exhibitions changed over time.
Lecture Two: Chicago 1893 and Paris 1900
Lecture Three: Chicago 1933, Brussels 1935, and New York 1939
Lecture Four: Brussels 1958, Montreal Expo '67, and the New York World's Fair of 1964
Jennie Hirsh (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Columbia Universities, as well as pre-doctoral fellowships from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Wolfsonian FIU. Hirsh has authored essays on artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yinka Shonibare, and Regina Silveira, and is co-editor, with Isabelle Wallace, of Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate 2011).
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
This was so interesting to see the start of National and world expositions. Can’t wait for the next modules.