[ecrea] new book Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader

Carnegie Mellon ETC Press is excited to announce the release of “Meet Me 
at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader,” by Laura Hollengreen, Celia Pearce, 
Rebecca Rouse, Bobby Schweizer, et al.

Together with the Olympics, world’s fairs are one of the few regular 
international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of 
sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new 
(or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass 
audience. "Meet Me at the Fair: A World’s Fair Reader" breaks new ground 
in scholarship on world’s fairs by incorporating a number of short new 
texts that investigate world’s fairs in their multiple aspects: 
political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, 
technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors 
come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in 
academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, 
non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking 
the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural 
production of world’s fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria 
of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, 
media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world’s fair 
itself.

For more information, and to purchase or download a copy, visit:

http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/meet-me-fair-worlds-fair-reader


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