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An Exceptionalist Spectacle An Exceptionalist Spectacle
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The Tarsney Act The Tarsney Act
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The City Beautiful Movement The City Beautiful Movement
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The École des Beaux-Arts and the Architecture of the Tarsney Act Era The École des Beaux-Arts and the Architecture of the Tarsney Act Era
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Artifices of Representation in US Territories Artifices of Representation in US Territories
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1 American Exceptionalism: Artistic and Architectural Precedents
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Published:November 2023
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Abstract
Chapter 1 delves into American Exceptionalism, its role in landscape paintings from the mid-nineteenth century, and the influence of its historical and theoretical precepts on Federal Architecture built overseas after the 1898 Spanish-American War. Within this context, the chapter reflects upon the value of the land and real estate from the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, concretized into managing strategic locations around the planet. Also, it brings forth the prominence of a visually trademarked Federal architecture in U.S. possessions, implemented via state-of-the-art technological advances, construction materials and techniques, segregationist labor hierarchies, and Beaux-Arts stylistic orientations. It also discusses the relevance of a rotunda, a salle des pas-perdus, and their role as the visual and spatial memory of Progressive America, both inland and abroad. Through a Cartesian understanding of the world, in which reason and logic prevailed over emotion, many of these trends conveyed to audiences, via magnificent fairs and shows, a sense of entitlement of Progressive America.
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