Decentering World's Fairs: Transcultural Perspectives on Art, Fashion, and Latin America - Paperback

by Alexandra Karentzos (Editor), Miriam Oesterreich (Editor), Elena Nustrini (Editor)

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 >Gesamtkunstwerkperipheral

Author Biography

Alexandra Karentzos (Prof. Dr.) is an art historian and professor of fashion and aesthetics at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her research focuses in particular on fashion, art, and globalization from a postcolonial, transcultural perspective.

Miriam Oesterreich (Prof. Dr.) is an art historian and professor of design theory at Universität der Künste Berlin. Her research focuses on Latin American art history from the 19th century to the present, critical heritage studies, exhibition histories, and transculturation processes in design, fashion, and art.

Elena Nustrini (M.A.) is an art historian and doctoral candidate at Universität der
Künste Berlin. Her academic research fields are the history of collections and exhibitions, art and colonial knowledge and practices, as well as botanical prints and drawings of the 17th and 19th centuries.

Lizzy Rys (M.A.) is an art and fashion historian and a doctoral candidate at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Ghent University. Her research explores late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fashion in Belgium, examining how gender, decolonial practices, and class relations intersect within the field of fashion history.