Columbus and Columbia in Chicago, 1893: man of genius meets generic woman

Author

Sund, Judy

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1993, Num. 3, Vol. 75, 443-466, 20 ill.

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

The Columbian Exposition emerged as a forum for U.S. women intent on assuming an active role in the country's future. Diverse constructions of the feminine in the Fair's visual arts and live entertainments are examined against contemporaneous feminist oratory, and it is argued that the most prominent representations undermined rather than buttressed progressive agendas by perpetuating the use of the female form as depersonalized vessel of allegory and passive reflector of fantasy.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United States
• World's Columbian Exposition (1893)||Chicago (IL, USA)
• Women
• Feminism
• United States
• 1800-1900
• Art
• Iconography

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- États-Unis
• World's Columbian Exposition (1893)||Chicago (IL, USA)
• Femmes
• Féminisme
• Etats-Unis
• 1800-1900
• Art
• Iconographie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00338490

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