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around the world, for all nations have come here; enemies are coexisting in peace.
Just as, at the origin of things, the divine spirit was hovering over the orb of the
waters, so now it hovers over this orb of iron." L 'Exposition universelle de 1867
illustree: Publication internationale a,utorisee par let commission imperiale. vol.
2, p. 322 (cited in Giedion, p. 41). [G2,4]
In connection with the exhibition of 1867. On Offenbach. !'''For the past ten years,
this verve of the comic author and this joyous inspiration of the composer have
been vying with each other for fantastic and serendipitous effects; but only in
1867, the year of the Universal Exposition, did they attain the height of hilarity,
the ultimate expression of their exuberance.3 The success of this theater company,
already so great, became delirious-something of which our petty victories of
today can furnish no idea. Paris, that summer, suffered sunstroke." From the
speech before the Academie Frallf;aise by Henri Lavedan, December 31, 1899 (on
the election of Meilhac). [G2a,1]
Advertising is emancipated in Jugendstil. Jugendstil posters are "large, always
figurative, refined in their colors but not gaudy; they show balls, night clubs,
movie theaters. They are made for a frothy life-a life with which the sensual
curves of Jugendstil are well matched:' Frankfurter Zeitung, signed F. L. On an
exhibition of posters in Mannheinl in 192 7. 0 Dream Consciousness 0 [G2a,2]
The first London exhibition brings together industries from around the world.
Following this, the South Kensington museum is founded. Second world exhibition
in 1862, likewise in London. With the Munich exhibition of 1875, the German
Renaissance style comes into fashion. [G2a,3]
Wiertz on the occasion of a world exhibition: ·"What strikes one at first is not at all
the things people are making today but the things they will be making in the future.
/ The human spirit begins to accustom itself to the power of matter." A. J. Wiertz,
Oeu.vres litt{waires (Paris, 1870), p. 374. [G2a,4]
Talmeyr calls the poster !"the art of Gomorrah." La Cite du sang (Paris, 1901),
p. 286. 0 Jugendstil 0 [G2a,5]
Industrial exhibitions as secret blueprint for museums. Art: industrial products
projected into the past. [G2a,6]
Joseph Nash painted a series of watercolors for the king of England showing the
Crystal Palace, the edifice built expressly for London's industrial exhibition in
1851. The first world exhibition and the first monumental structure in glass and
iron! From these watercolors, one sees with amazement how the exhibitors took
pains to decorate the colossal interior in an oriental-fairy-tale style, and howalongside
the assortment of goods that filled the arcaded walks-bronze monu-