A Taste Of Progress: Food At International And World Exhibitions In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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Hardback/English
USD 230.40
Description
World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society, yet whilst the function and purpose of architecture at these major events has been well-studied, the place of food has received very little attention. Food stood as a powerful semiotic device for communicating and maintaining conceptions of identity, history, traditions and progress, of inclusion and exclusion, making it a valuable tool for research
