Fashion and museums : theory and practice / Marie Riegels Melchior and Birgitta Svensson (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melchior, Marie Riegels, 1974- editor.

Svensson, Birgitta, 1948- editor.

Series:

Dress, body, culture.

Dress, body, culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume museums.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Physical Description:

233p. ; ill. (b&w).

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2020.

Summary:

Why is fashion 'in fashion' in museums today? This 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.

Contents:

Introduction

Understanding Fashion and Dress Museology, Marie Riegels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark, Denmark

Section I: The Power of Fashion. When Museums Enter New Territory

The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

An Evolving History, Harold Koda & Jesscica Glasscock, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Understanding Fashion through the Museum, José Teunissen, Arnhem Design School, The Netherlands

Contemporary Fashion History in Museums, Marco Pecorari, Centre for Fashion Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Appraised, displayed and concealed: Fashion Photography on the Swedish Museum Stage, Anna Dahlgren, Department of Art History, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Section II: Fashion Controversies. When Bodies Become Public

Gender considerations in fashion history exhibitions, Julia Petrov, School of Creative and Critical Studies, Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada

Class and Gender in a Museum Collection: Female Skiwear, Marianne Larsson, Nordiska museet, Sweden

Exhibiting the Body, Dress and Time in Museums: A Historical Perspective, Anne-Sophie Hjemdahl, University of Oslo, Norway

Section III: In Practice

From Museum of Costume to Fashion Museum: In the case of the Fashion Museum in Bath, Rosemary Harden, The Fashion Museum in Bath, United Kingdom

Collecting Practice: Designmuseum Danmark, Kirsten Toftegaard, Designmuseum Danmark, Denmark

Engaging the public in issues of Dress and Identity: A Case Study of Amagermuseet in Denmark, Ingeborg Phillipsen, Museum Amager, Denmark

Learning through Fashion: The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Tone Rasch & Ingebjŗg Eidhammer, The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Norway

Autobiography as a proposed approach to a fashion exhibition, Jeffrey Horsley, London Collage of Fashion, United Kingdom

In Conclusion: Museums dressed in fashion, Birgitta Svensson, Nordiska museet, Sweden.

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 5, 2018).

ISBN:

9781350050914 : (ebk : Bloomsbury)

OCLC:

1201426852