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Seize the Day: Exhibiting Australia

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posted on 2023-05-24, 05:27 authored by Katherine Darian-SmithKatherine Darian-Smith
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held at London’s purpose-built Crystal Palace in 1851, marked the commencement of the great nineteenth-century international exhibition movement. A ‘motley collection of uncoordinated items represented New South Wales (NSW) and Van Diemans Land’, to be supplemented by a late exhibit displaying specimens of the first gold found in Australia (Young 2008, 12.3). Despite this modest beginning, Australians enthusiastically embraced subsequent international exhibitions, at home and abroad. Exhibitions have been a marketing tool for colonial and national advancement in global trade, migration and tourism from the 1850s to the present. The complex politics, personalities and astonishingly rich material culture of the exhibitions across two centuries examined in this collection reveal how public forms of display have continued to define us to ourselves, as citizens of Australia and of the world.

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Publication title

Seize the day: exhibitions, Australia, and the World

Editors

K Darian-Smith. R Gillespie, C Jordan, and E Willis

Pagination

1.01-1.14

ISBN

978-0-9804648-0-1

Department/School

College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

Publisher

Monash University ePress

Place of publication

Melbourne

Extent

21

Rights statement

Copyright 2008 Monash University ePress

Repository Status

  • Restricted

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Understanding Australia’s past

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