Art Hand-Book, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting

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Excerpt from Art Hand-Book, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting: Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American ExpositionThe act of Congress providing for a federal building and exhibit at the pan-american Exposition states that it is desirable to encourage the holding of the Exposition to fittingly illustrate the marvelous development of the west ern hemisphere during the nineteenth century by a display of the arts, indus tries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mines, and sea. The joint reso lation of Congress previously adopted declared that this development was to be illustrated by a demonstration of the reciprocal relations existing between the American Republics and Colonies. In these declarations the real object of the Exposition was comprehensively ex pressed at the outset, and it has been kept steadily in View. It is clearly re vealed in every feature of the Expo sition: in the architectural scheme, suggestive of the history of so much of this hemisphere, in the restriction of the exhibits to its resources, indus tries, products, inventions, arts, and ideas and in the active participation of practically all of its peoples and coun tries. To have brought all of those peoples together for the first time in the accomplishment of such an object is the crowning achievement of the Exposition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.