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Luftschein, Susan. "The Changing Face of an Expanding America: The City Beautiful Movement, the Myth of the Frontier, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904," Art History Program, City University of New York, May 1996.
This dissertation explores two facets of the fair: the reliance on the ideals and practices of the City Beautiful Movement in the creation of its ground plan and its decorative scheme, and the mythology of the frontier as reflected in its sculptural program. The sculptural program was an integral part of the fair’s demonstration of the importance of civic art and municipal planning. It was also a clear and unequivocal demonstration of the mythology surrounding the American frontier, which was perceived at the time to be rapidly disappearing. Many of the sculptors employed by Bitter were responding to two important cultural forces: historians Frederick Jackson Turner and Theodore Roosevelt and their “frontier theses.”
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