Fashion and Museums
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Fashion and Museums

Theory and Practice

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fashion and Museums

Theory and Practice

About this book

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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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781472527660
eBook ISBN
9781472567925
Edition
1
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. CONTENTS
  7. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  8. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  9. INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING FASHIONAND DRESS MUSEOLOGY
  10. SECTION 1 THE POWER OF FASHION: WHEN MUSEUMS ENTER NEW TERRITORY
  11. SECTION 2 FASHION CONTROVERSIES: WHEN BODIES BECOME PUBLIC
  12. SECTION 3 IN PRACTICE
  13. IN CONCLUSION: MUSEUMS DRESSED IN FASHION
  14. INDEX