Decentering World’s Fairs

Transcultural Perspectives on Art, Fashion, and Latin America

Alexandra Karentzos, Miriam Oesterreich, Elena Nustrini, Lizzy Rys

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9783839469538
• Topic: Design
• Subtopic: Art General

How are the histories of art and fashion connected in the global context of world's fairs? The contributors to this volume analyze the changing roles assumed by the arts, visual media, handicrafts, and artifacts and investigate the unifying conceptions of the ›Gesamtkunstwerk‹ in the framework of national representations at world's fairs. They reflect the ambivalent status of Latin American re-/presentations and the artistic and curatorial strategies employed by representatives of (post)colonial or ›peripheral‹ states. By focusing on transcultural style migrations and aesthetic discourses in a globalized art world, the volume provides a re-vision of international exhibitions and world's fairs from the perspective of a critical art history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction: ‘A Unique Assemblage of All Things’ New Styles, Latin America, and Re-viewing Art and Fashion History of International and World Expositions
• Rail Travel as Gesamtkunstwerk Fashionable Encounters at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
• “To Educate and Refine Public Taste” Participation of the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony at the World’s Fairs
• Curating Hierarchies A Reading of Kuba Embroideries at the Colonial Pavilion of Tervuren in 1897
• Selling Art Nouveau Fashion at World’s Fairs, 1893-1908
• The ‘Spectacle’ of Imperialism Exhibiting the ‘World’ at International Expositions
• Paris 1867 Staging gauchos from the River Plate at the World’s Fair
• Etching the Trans/National Landscape Argentina and Italy in the Context of International Exhibitions and the Etching Revival
• Nostalgia for Progress Pre-Hispanic References in the Parisian World’s Fairs, 1855 to 1937
• Fashion Behind Glass Seduction, Alienation, and Experiences of the ‘Modern,’ 1900—1908
• On the Verge of War Latin American Pavilions at the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris
• Between Bodies Locating Fashion and Dress in the Peruvian National Pavilion, New York World’s Fair 1939–1940
• Curiosity, Sympathy and Influence A Close Look at the Belgian Art Exhibitions Organized in Argentina After the Second World War
• Image Credits
• Biographies authors