Open-access Brazil goes to Paris in 1889: a place at the Universal Exposition

The A. studies the meaning of Brazilian presence in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris trom a museographical point of view. Based on rich and in large part ignored or underexplored sources, she reveals the efforts ma de to show Brazil as an attractive country for foreigners and analyzes the allegorical repertoire put into action, along with the rhetorics or different sorts of exhibition, either of natural and manufactured items as well as artistic and scientific in character.

lnternational exhihition; History or exhihitions; Museography; The Universal Exposition, Paris, 1889


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