Author: Fort Worth Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : The West in art
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Fort Worth Frontier Centennial Exposition
Author: Fort Worth Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : The West in art
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Fort Worth
Author: From Old South to Modern West
Author: Jacob W. OlmsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages :
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Using Fort Worth's 1936 celebration of the Texas State Centennial as a case study, this dissertation analyzes the way civic leaders and city boosters used the celebration as an opportunity to reinforce the city's western identity while proclaiming an image of modernity to fairgoers. Chapter one describes the origin of Fort Worth's bid to host a memorial celebration to the livestock industry as part of Texas's centennial festivities in 1936 and the efforts of city boosters to use the celebration to repackage the city's western identity and simultaneously promulgate its images as a modern metropolis. The second chapter describes the gradual disenchantment of West Texans with the eastern focus of state's centennial plans and their support for and participation in Fort Worth's celebration. Chapter three describes the early efforts of Frontier Centennial planners to develop "authentic" western attractions while omitting references to the city's southern heritage and the prominent role played by Fort Worth's club women in refining the celebration's commemorative message. The fourth chapter analyzes the circumstances which ultimately brought Rose to Fort Worth and his pitch to revamp Frontier Centennial plans. Chapter five describes Rose's sexualization of the celebration and explores the paradoxical role played by women during the Frontier Centennial. Finally, the sixth chapter demonstrates Rose's use of prevailing symbols of the mythic West in the creation of a "themed space" in the physical layout of the Frontier Centennial fair grounds.
Fort Worth Frontier Centennial
Author: History of the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial
Author: Lois GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Frontier Centennial
Author: Jacob W. OlmsteadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781682830833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth?s celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city?s identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the city?s identity and image as a modern city of the American West. Olmstead?s retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebration?s commemorative messages. Fort Worth?s image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the city?s modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its ?ideological essence.? Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.
Texas Frontier Centennial & Casa Manana, Billie Rose, Fort Worth, 1936-1937
Author: Texas frontier centennial celebrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Year America Discovered Texas
Author: Kenneth Baxter RagsdalePublisher:
ISBN: 9781585440931
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"They came, they saw, they liked it," Stanley Marcus recalls of 1936 - the year "the rest of America discovered Texas." That year, in the midst of the nation's depression, the Lone Star State extravagantly celebrated the centennial of its independence from Mexico with fervor, fanfare, and hoop-la. Spawned by pride, patriotism, and a large measure of economic self-interest, the 1936 centennial observances marked a high tide of ethnocentrism in Texas and etched a new image of the state. In 1923 the Advertising Clubs of Texas launched the centennial movement to advertise the state nationally and stimulate tourism and outside investment in the Texas economy. The Texas legislature, responding to a groundswell of patriotism, appropriated $3 million in centennial funding, which the federal government subsequently matched. The state legislature provided for both local celebrations (some 250) and a central exposition. Regional museums, historical restorations, and a statewide historical marker program permanently commemorated the event. The focal point of the celebration was the Central Exposition-a World's Fair-held in Dallas. When Fort Worth staged an unofficial, competing exposition, the slogan was born: "Go to Dallas for Education; Come to Fort Worth for Entertainment." Live radio broadcasts, architectural innovations, industrial progress, and Texas history were showcased in Dallas; Billy Rose's spectacular Frontier Exposition with Sally Rand and the Casa Manana promoted Fort Worth. By the end of the centennial year, America had learned where-and to an extend, what-Texas was. The Lone Star State would never be the same.
Masterworks from Fort Worth Collections
Author: Pencil Trails, Fort Worth Frontier Centennial
Author: Nelson M. DavidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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