London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition
London 1908: Imre Kiralfy and the Franco-British Exhibition
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1908 年伦敦：基拉尔菲伊姆雷和法英展览
DOI：
10.1057/9780230281837_4
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2010
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0.1
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A. C. Geppert
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作者：
A. C. Geppert
在1851年的世博会取得了惊人的成功，11年后在南肯辛顿举办的指定的继任者--国际展览会几乎完全失败之后，帝国的首都再也没有举行过任何官方的全球博览会。德国博物馆馆长、艺术历史学家朱利叶斯·莱辛在1900年3月指出，从那时起，伦敦就没有准备好承担真正的世界展览的重担。苏格兰生物学家和城市规划师→Patrick Geddes同时指出，特别是与巴黎相比，世博会运动已经“在伦敦萎靡不振”，一位英国建筑评论家也同意这一说法，他说“大规模展览的吸引力”“在抓住伦敦方面的速度出奇地慢”。2 1852年，一个私人财团以象征性的价格购买了维多利亚时代大展览和标志的标志性水晶宫，并将其搬迁到伦敦南部的郊区赛德纳姆，距离特拉法加广场约15公里，那里重新建造和扩大了一座建筑，并于1854年夏天重新开放。从19世纪80年代末开始，在那里举办了几次规模和范围有限的展览，最终在1911年庆祝的盛大的帝国节日中达到顶峰。虽然一开始非常受欢迎，每年吸引数百万游客，但搬迁到锡德纳姆的重新组装的建筑后来逐渐消亡，随着时间的推移，几乎完全失去了原始建筑的“近乎宗教的光环”。《泰晤士报》在节日期间发表的一封信中称，在1936.3年11月30日的一场戏剧性大火中最终将宫殿烧毁之前，宫殿一直处于破败状态
After the Great Exhibition’s astounding success in 1851 and the almost complete failure of its designated successor, the International Exhibition, held 11 years later in South Kensington, no ‘official’ universal exposition was again held in the capital of the Empire. ‘Since then, London has not been prepared to take on the burden of a true world exhibition’, German museum director and art historian Julius Lessing noted in March 1900. Especially in comparison to Paris, the exposition movement had ‘languished in London’, Scottish biologist and town planner →Patrick Geddes noted at the same time, and a British architectural critic agreed when stating that ‘the fascination of exhibitions on a large scale’ had been ‘strangely slow in seizing upon London’.2 In 1852, the icon of the Great Exhibition and signum of the Victorian age, the Crystal Palace, was purchased by a private consortium for a nominal fee and relocated to Sydenham, a suburb in the south of London, approximately 15 kilometers from Trafalgar Square, where a remodeled and enlarged structure was re-erected and reopened in the summer of 1854. Beginning in the late 1880s, several exhibitions of limited size and scope were held there, culminating in the grand Festival of Empire celebrated in 1911. Although very popular at first and attracting millions of annual visitors, the reassembled building removed to Sydenham was subject to a steady demise and over time lost the original’s ‘nearly religious aura’ almost completely. A letter published in The Times on the occasion of the Festival described the Palace as ‘becoming dilapidated’ before it eventually burned down in a dramatic fire on 30 November 1936.3