India for the Masses: the Typical and the Topical in the Murals at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940)

Abstract

This paper deals with the representation of India in the murals at San Francisco’s Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940) and the codes and examples used by the author Miguel Covarrubias to show the massive North American audience – generally, poorly interested in India – the people, the Art, the native dwellings and means of transportations, the flora and the fauna and the economy of the Indian subcontinent.

Keywords

• maps
• symbolic representations
• caricature
• united states
• interwar period
• topics
• international and universal expositions
• miguel covarrubias