Decentering World's Fairs

Alexandra Karentzos

ISBN 10: 3837681033 / ISBN 13: 9783837681031

Published by Transcript Verlag Nov 2025, 2025

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Neuware -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. 398 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decentering World's Fairs
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Nov 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837681033
• ISBN 13: 9783837681031
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 0D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 468 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Alexandra Karentzos (Prof. Dr.) ist Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlerin und Professorin für Mode und Ästhetik an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. In Forschung und Lehre befasst sie sich insbesondere mit Mode, Kunst und Globalisierung in einer postkolonialen, transkulturellen Perspektive.

Miriam Oesterreich (Dr.) ist promovierte Kunsthistorikerin und Professorin für Designtheorie an der Universität der Künste Berlin. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Lateinamerikanische Kunstgeschichte, Indigenismus und Modernekonzeptionen, transkulturelle Transferprozesse künstlerischer Praktiken, Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert sowie Verflechtungen von Kunst und Populärkultur.