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This essay examines exhibitions and pageants in 1908. This year marked the pinnacle of public spectacle in the Edwardian period, encompassing the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games, both at White City in West London, and also an extraordinary number of commercial exhibitions, including the first Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition. For the fourth year running, local historical pageants were staged across England, spreading to Scotland and even Canada. In addition, the suffragettes put public spectacle to political ends in a series of spectacular parades. The use of spectacle, however, was not simply a top-down hegemonic process, despite its utilization by the state and various organizations for purposes of propaganda, in the coronationand other spectacular events. As Alison Light has pointed out, faced with “the staggering spectacle of the coronation . . . with all the sumptuous excess of a displayed Empire,” we need to “gauge the appeal of such imagery.” Thus the focus of this essay is the interplay between the Edwardian sense of spectacle and spectatorship.
This book was part of a project at the Yale Center for British Art funded by Paul Mellon.
This book was part of a project at the Yale Center for British Art funded by Paul Mellon.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Edwardian Sense |
Subtitle of host publication | Art, Design and Spectacle in Britain, 1901-1910 |
Editors | Michael Hatt, Morna O'Neill |
Place of Publication | New Haven CT |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 43-71 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780300163353 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Publication series
Name | Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art |
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Publisher | Yale University Press |
Keywords
- Spectacle
- spectatorship
- Pageantry
- Pageants
- exhibitions
- international exhibitions
- Ideal Home Exhibition
- ideal Home Show
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Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (2013)
Deborah Sugg Ryan (Advisor)
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