ISBN:
9781472525246
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Series Statement:
Dress, Body, Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Fashion and Museums : Theory and Practice
DDC:
391.0075
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 cu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING FASHIONAND DRESS MUSEOLOGY; The attraction of the new, the obvious, and the popular; Fashion and dress in museums: past and present; Fashion museology as a "new museology" controversy; Past dress-future fashion?; Introducing the book; Notes; References; SECTION 1 THE POWER OF FASHION: WHEN MUSEUMS ENTER NEW TERRITORY; 1 THE COSTUME INSTITUTE AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: AN EVOLVING HISTORY; Ambition and innovation in avagrant collection
Description / Table of Contents:
Early exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Vreeland era; The academic and the cinematic; References; 2 UNDERSTANDING FASHION THROUGH THE MUSEUM; Establishing fashion as a cultural phenomenon in art museums; Fashion as popular culture: a new vision, a new approach; Fashion studies and their influence on the fashion exhibition; Conceptual fashion: explaining the idea behind the object; Fashion, storytelling, and experience design; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 CONTEMPORARY FASHION HISTORY IN MUSEUMS; Only a terminological issue?; Fashion designing the museum
Description / Table of Contents:
Curating (with) the fashion designerThe "new" fashion history and its objects; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 4 APPRAISED, DISPLAYED, AND CONCEALED: FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE SWEDISH MUSEUM STAGE; Two art and design museums; Two cultural historical museums; Collecting, displaying, and concealing; The art of display; In conclusion; Notes; References; SECTION 2 FASHION CONTROVERSIES: WHEN BODIES BECOME PUBLIC; 5 GENDER CONSIDERATIONS IN FASHION HISTORY EXHIBITIONS; The gallery of fashion; Museums, fashion, and gender; The self-styled consumer
Description / Table of Contents:
Tasteful consumption: the uses of fashion in art educationConclusion; References; 6 CLASS AND GENDER IN A MUSEUM COLLECTION: FEMALE SKIWEAR; Fieldwork in the past; Outdoor life on skis; Winter sports and bourgeois fashion apparel; Female ski runners in "Lapp costumes"; Twin sisters Wiking ahead of their time; Short skirts hide the breeches; Sports and skiwear in vogue; Skiwear for everybody; Full-length, wide trousers; Conclusion; References; 7 EXHIBITING THE BODY, DRESS, AND TIME IN MUSEUMS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; Dress, body, and time
Description / Table of Contents:
Dress collections and exhibitions in Scandinavian museumsThe Swedish System; The dressed figure: a mounted mannequin inscribed with class, gender, and the history of style; The ideal of the discrete dressed figure; In conclusion; Notes; References; SECTION 3 IN PRACTICE; 8 FROM MUSEUM OF COSTUME TO FASHION MUSEUM: THE CASE OF THE FASHION MUSEUMIN BATH; Bath; The Assembly Rooms; Doris Langley Moore; The collection; Presenting the collection; Conclusion; Notes; Reference; 9 COLLECTING PRACTICE: DESIGNMUSEUM DANMARK
Description / Table of Contents:
The fashion, dress, and textile collectionat Designmuseum Danmark and the criteria of collecting
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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