Henri Privat-Livemont (1861-1936), Brussels, International Exhibition 1897, 1896. Litografia su carta (J.-L. Goffart lith., Bruxelles), 274×127 cm. Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale (attraverso Wikimedia Commons [Public domain])

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Hobsbawn defined International Expositions as new, allegoric and majestic rituals of self-glorification of capitalism. According to Lotze [1], they are the typically modern celebrations, while Benjamin states that they introduce a phantasmagoria to please people.

Born in the bourgeois state of the XIX century, they crossed totalitarian regimes and evolved until nowadays. Expositions can be considered as an attempt to catalogue national identities and official main cultures.

This issue of Diacronie focuses on this phenomenon from its origins on, taking into account both its national and international dimension, using the theoretical frames of social history, and heterogeneous sources.

We welcome in particular interdisciplinary researches analyzing these mega-events that occur in “non-places” within the cities and affect  urban environment and culture.

Bibliography

• ADES, Dawn (ed.), Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-45, London,Thames and Hudson, 1995.
• BENJAMIN, Walter, The Arcades Project, Cambridge, London, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
• CHARTIER, Roger, El mundo como representación: estudios sobre historia cultural, Barcelona, Gedisa, 1992.
• GEPPERT, Alexander C.T., COFFEY, Jean, LAU, Tammy, International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World’s Fairs, 1851-2005: A Bibliography, s. l., Freie Universität Berlin, California State University, 2006 URL:
  <http://www.fresnostate.edu/library/subjectresources/specialcollections/worldfairs/ExpoBibliography3ed.pdf>
• HOBSBAWM, Eric, The Age of Empire 1875-1914, New York, First Vintage Books Edition, 1989, pp. 34-55.

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NOTES

[1] LOTZE, Rudolf Hermann, Mikrokosmos, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1864, cit. in BENJAMIN, Walter, The Arcades Project, Cambridge, London, Massachusetts, London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002, p. 201. ↑

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