Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice
Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more. Contribut…
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Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more. Contributions look at topics such as how fashion has made museums accessible to diverse audiences and how curators present broader themes and issues such as gender, class and technology innovatively through exhibiting fashion. Drawing on approaches from dress history, fashion studies, museum studies and curatorship, this engaging book will be key reading for students and scholars across a range of disciplines.
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- Publication Date:©2014.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (217 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472567925, 1472567927
- oclc:on1058883815
- LC Classification:NK4701.8 ǂb .F374 2014eb
- Dewey Decimal:746.92075
Table of Contents
Intro -- Dress, Body, Culture -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: understanding fashion and dress museology -- SECTION 1 THE POWER OF FASHION: WHEN MUSEUMS ENTER NEW TERRITORY -- 1 The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: an evolving history -- 2 Understanding fashion through the museum -- 3 Contemporary fashion history in museums -- 4 Appraised, displayed, and concealed: fashion photography on the Swedish museum stage -- SECTION 2 FASHION CONTROVERSIES: WHEN BODIES BECOME PUBLIC -- 5 Gender considerations in fashion history exhibitions -- 6 Class and gender in a museum collection: female skiwear -- 7 Exhibiting the body, dress, and time in museums: a historical perspective -- SECTION 3 IN PRACTICE -- 8 From museum of costume to fashion museum: the case of the Fashion Museum in Bath -- 9 Collecting practice: Designmuseum Danmark -- 10 Engaging the public in issues of dress and identity: a case study of Amagermuseet in Denmark -- 11 Learning through fashion: the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology -- 12 Autobiography as a proposed approach to a fashion exhibition -- In conclusion: museums dressed in fas…
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