Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice by Melchior, Marie Riegels

Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781472527660)

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Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice by Melchior, Marie Riegels

Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice

$42.95
Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice by Melchior, Marie Riegels

Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Marie Riegels Melchior
ISBN-10: 1472527666
ISBN-13: 9781472527660
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 07/31/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1130
By Marie Riegels Melchior
By Marie Riegels Melchior
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Marie Riegels Melchior is Assistant Curator at Designmuseum, Denmark.

Birgitta Svensson is Professor and holder of the Hallwyl chair in European Ethnology at Nordiska museet and Stockholm University, Sweden.

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