Exhibitions and Visual Culture in Latin America, 19th and 20th Century. Introduction

Abstract

The dossier explores the presence of Latin America in exhibitions held during the time period extending from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. To this end, it investigates the staging in international, national, and specialized exhibitions, emphasizing the cases that have received less attention. Historiography has approached the sources of the period by raising questions related to problems concerning the production of scientific knowledge, the logistic involved in the exhibitions, the material culture, and the exchange of both knowledge and objects. Considering the significance of the collective imaginaries developed through those “miniature worlds”, this dossier investigates the visual and performative dimension of the exhibitions, combining interdisciplinary, transnational, and global perspectives.