Fashion and Museums : Theory and Practice Paperback / softback
Edited by Marie Riegels Melchior, Birgitta Svensson
Part of the Dress, Body, Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 27 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781472527660
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 27 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:19/06/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781472527660