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[David Morris]

Nice photos.  And I'm sure this fantasy-scape "Dreamland" was at least
partially inspired by the Columbia Exposition.  But more progressive
minds saw the Columbia Exposition as backward, anti-modern.

http://web.mit.edu/museum/chicago/exposition.html

"Meanwhile the virus of the World's Fair, after a period of incubation
... began to show unmistakable signs of the nature of the contagion.
There came a violent outbreak of the Classic and the Renaissance in
the East, which slowly spread Westward, contaminating all that it
touched, both at its source and outward.... By the time the market had
been saturated, all sense of reality was gone. In its place, had come
deep seated illusions, hallucinations, absence of pupillary reaction
to light, absence of knee-reaction-symptoms all of progressive
cerebral meningitis; the blanketing of the brain. Thus Architecture
died in the land of the free and the home of the brave.... The damage
wrought by the World's Fair will last for half a century from its
date, if not longer."
Louis Sullivan

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Mark Kohut mentions:
>> the Columbian Exhibition of AtD's start....
>
> Which, BTW, helped inspire this look in NYC a decade later
>
> http://www.shorpy.com/node/7912
> http://www.shorpy.com/node/7918