The Paris Universal Expositions
(Re-)Productions of Art and Fashion
Allemand 
Anglais 
The Paris Expositions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries played a pivotal role in shaping the intersections of art, fashion, industry and modern consumer culture. From a critical art historical perspective, this volume examines how these practices of exhibiting the world transformed modern visual culture, influencing museum collections, art education and the formation of taste. As sites of spectacle, world’s fairs accelerated the commercialisation of art and fashion, introducing new techniques of mass production and reproduction – from illustrated fashion magazines to department store displays. Far from being neutral arenas of cultural exchange, these fairs were both sites of innovation and instruments of cultural power, linking industrialisation, mass consumption and the aesthetics of modern life.
With contributions by Buket Altinoba, Maude Bass-Krueger, Sophie Cras, Maria P. Gindhart, María José Jarrín Yánez and Sven Schuster, Léa Kuhn, Justine Lécuyer, Miriam Oesterreich
