AtD redux, always....more
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 21 10:00:50 CDT 2008
And, that same chapter in the Oxford History of Art, quotes social historians on the "Protestant" themes of the Fair---White City sorta like a WASP CITY.
That literal 'White City' whitewash---"daylit fiction"[AtD]---served to show how all the diverse, dirty, ethnic immigrants [30% of Chicagoans were literal 'new' immigrants] would become 'AMERICANS'.
But PROTESTANT THEMES (!) for OBA and his 'errands into the wilderness"!
TRP knows how to find what he knows.
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