Matthew Teti article featured in Chicago's Bridge magazine

Matthew Teti, program assistant in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, has published an essay entitled "The Work of Fashion in the Age of Globalization" in Bridge Magazine, a Chicago-based art and literature review (Oct./Nov. 2004, 7-9).

Matthew's article briefly traces the evolution of the incidence of fashion in the fine arts, highlighting the fact that this relationship has been increasingly framed in economic terms since the rise of post-industrial capitalism. It then examines the use of fashion by select contemporary artists and architects and discusses how their methodological approach to the fashion/fine art hybrid has changed with, been shaped by, and commented on the economic conditions of globalization.

The issue is currently on the shelf in the main periodicals room.