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SEIZE THE DAY: EXHIBITIONS, AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD
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Preliminaries


 
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 Editors' acknowledgments
Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan, Elizabeth Willis

Setting the Scene


 
 'Seize the day'
Exhibiting Australia
Kate Darian-Smith

Part One: Displaying Colonialism

Indigenous cultures on display


 
'The productions of Aboriginal states'
Australian Aboriginal and settler exhibits at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855
Elizabeth Willis

 
Race and Australian national identity at the 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition
Emily Harris

 
'We think that this subject of the native races should be thoroughly gone into at the forthcoming Exhibition'
The 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition
Penelope Edmonds

Colonial case studies


 
Hidden treasure
Exhibiting Western Australia, 1860-90
Lise Summers

 
'Within her own boundaries'
Queensland's first 'at home' intercolonial exhibition
Joanne Scott, Ross Laurie

Material culture


 
Scientific and public duties
Ferdinand Mueller's forest contributions to exhibitions and a museum
Linden Gillbank

 
International exhibition postcards
Tangible reflections of an ephemeral past
Jonathan Sweet

Complements


 
The exhibitionary complex personified
Melbourne's nineteenth century displays and the mercurial Dr LL Smith
David Dunstan

 
Fundraising through fancywork
Grand bazaars in Melbourne at the end of the nineteenth century
Annette Shiell

 
'Curiosities and rare scientific instruments'
Colonial conversazioni  in Australia and New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s
Elizabeth Hartrick

Part Two: Nationalism and Modernity

National identities


 
'How like England we can be'
The Australian international exhibitions in the nineteenth century
Linda Young

Women and exhibitions


 
'Surmounted by stuffed sheep'
Exhibitions and Empire in nineteenth-century Australian women's fiction
Susan K Martin

 
'Common neutral ground'
Feminising the public sphere at two nineteenth-century Australian exhibitions of women's work
Martha Sear

Artistic pursuits


 
Tom Roberts, Ellis Rowan and the struggle for Australian art at the great exhibitions of 1880 and 1888
Caroline Jordan

 
Aestheticism and empire
The Grosvenor Gallery Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne, 1887
Alison Inglis

 
Adelaide's Federal Art Exhibitions 1898-1923
Catherine Speck

Modernism, art and design


 
Power and modernity
A photo essay on the Centenary All-Electricity Exhibition, 1935
Robin Grow

 
A colonial legacy
Australian Painting at the Tate Gallery, London, 1963
Sarah Scott

 
'A significant mirror of progress'
Modernist design and Australian participation at Expo '67 and Expo '70
Carolyn Barnes, Simon Jackson

Postscript


 
New directions for scholarship about world expos
Robert W Rydell

Index


 
 Index of exhibitions cited