{"product_id":"weaving-europe-crafting-the-museum-magdalena-buchczyk-9781350226777","title":"Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin","description":"\u003ci\u003eWeaving Europe, Crafting the Museum\u003c\/i\u003e delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on the objects from the collection of the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin offers an innovative and challenging way of understanding textile culture and museums. The book shows that textiles can be simultaneously used as the material object of research, and as a lens through which we can view museums. In doing so, the book fills a major gap by placing textile knowledge back into the museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter focuses on one object story and can be read individually. Swooping from 19th-century wax figure cabinets, Nazi-era collections, Cold War exhibitions in East and West Berlin, and institutional reshuffling after German unification, it reveals the dramatically changing story of the museum and its collection. Based on research with museum curators, makers and users of the textiles in Italy and Germany, Poland and Romania, the book provides intimate insights into how objects are mobilised to very different social and political effects. It sheds new light on movements across borders, political uses of textiles by fascist and communist regimes, the objects' fall into oblivion, as well as their heritage and tourist afterlives. Addressing this complex museum legacy, the book suggests new pathways to prefigure the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing new archival and ethnographic research, evocative examples and images, it is an essential read for students of textile and material culture, museum and curatorial studies as well as anyone interested in history, heritage and craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Magdalena Buchczyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350226777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350226777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d","brand":"Magdalena Buchczyk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46602820747519,"sku":"9781350226777","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2455459e-31d3-490f-9cd1-9092bc33639e.jpg?v=1739695389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weaving-europe-crafting-the-museum-magdalena-buchczyk-9781350226777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}