
Nancy J. Troy
Professor of Modern Art and Chair of Art History
Contact at: (213) 740-4556 or ntroy@usc.edu
Expertise:
- modern European art, architecture, design and visual culture
- modern American art, architecture, design and visual culture
- art, theater, and haute couture in early 20th century France and America
- the rise of the department store and commodity culture
- history of fashion and design
- early 20th century fashion trends
- Author of The De Stijl Environment (1983), Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier (1991), Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion (2002) and The Visual Culture of Modernism and Modernity (in progress)
Co-editor of Architecture and Cubism (1997)
Foreign Languages:
Dutch and French
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