The History of Fashion in Museums

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"A remarkable resource for the field of style studies suitable for both newcomers ... {and] seasoned practitioners." - Way Historia

"A precious source in the study of the subject ... inspiring." - The Journal of Wearing apparel History

The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of mode as a cultural production, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion displays, highlighting the continuity of past and nowadays curatorial practices. Comparison and contrasting exhibitions from dissimilar museums and decades-from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 to the Alexander McQueen Savage Dazzler bear witness at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art in 2011, and across-it makes connections between museum fashion and the wider fashion industry.

By critically analyzing trends in fashion exhibition practice over the 20th and early 21st centuries, Julia Petrov defines and describes the varied representations of historical mode within British and N American museum exhibitions. Rooted in extensive archival research on exhibitions past global leaders in the field-from the Victoria and Albert and the Bath Fashion Museum to the Brooklyn and the Royal Ontario Museums-the work reveals how fashion exhibitions accept been shaped past the values and anxieties associated with fashion more generally.

Supplemented by parallel critical approaches, including museological theory, historiography, trunk theory, material civilisation, and visual studies, Fashion, History, Museums demonstrates that in an increasingly corporate and mass-mediated globe, fashion exhibitions must be analysed in a comparative and global context. Richly illustrated with seventy images, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion history and museology, as well every bit curators, conservators, and exhibition designers.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Style equally Museum Object
1. Foundation Garments: Precedents for Fashion History Exhibitions in Museums
2. Window Shopping: Commercial Inspiration for Style in the Museum
3. The New Objectivity: Social Scientific discipline Methods for the Display of Dress
4. Intervisuality: Displaying Fashion every bit Art
5. Tableaux Vivants: The Influence of Theatre
half dozen. The Torso in the Gallery: Revivifying Historical Fashion
vii. The Way of All Flesh: Displaying the Historicity of Historical Fashion
8. The New Look: Contemporary Trends in Fashion Exhibitions

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Production details

Published	07 February 2019
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	248
ISBN	9781350048997
Banner	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations	8 color and 61 bw illus
Dimensions	234 ten 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Writer

Julia Petrov

Julia Petrov is Curator of Western Canadian Histor…

• The book serves every bit a valuable entry into the continually evolving field of way curation and would make a worthwhile purchase for any library with programs in art history, museum studies, fashion studies, or blueprint history.

  ARLIS/NA Reviews

• [Contains] rich illustrations ... Moreover, with 20 pages of references, the book confirms itself every bit a precious source in the study of the subject. Perhaps more than interestingly, it is possible that this publication will become the ever–present reference in hereafter books ... Petrov'due south piece of work is inspiring for scholars not just for the contents but even for her disciplined writing. The quoted exhibitions are, without a doubt, the greatest strength in this study.

  The Journal of Wearing apparel History

• A remarkable resource for the field of mode studies suitable for both newcomers who will capeesh the abundance of history and references, as well as seasoned practitioners that may see their ain work in a different calorie-free ... Ane of the most hitting aspects of this book [is] that the bug that seem to plague every fashion exhibition, from mannequin heads and wigs to gaps in the collection, have been with united states of america from the start. Perhaps with the add-on of this book, nosotros can collectively offset to sort out solutions.

  Fashion Historia

• Comprehensive, well-argued and original, this book includes invaluable insights from a practicing curator and historian, and places the museum exhibition in the larger soapbox of fashion and its history.

  Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, U.s.a.

• Petrov's sharp and critical insights put the current worldwide rise of fashion exhibitions in an historic continuum, raising questions that should exist on the listen of every style curator or museum working with way. By far the most thought provoking book on style curation of the past years.

  Kaat Debo, Manager and Chief Curator, MoMu Mode Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

• This is a valuable add-on to the scholarship dedicated to the complex relationship between way and museums. Petrov retraces connections and highlights pivotal experiences, providing a thorough study – useful not only to consider history, but likewise to reverberate on time to come practices.

  Maria Luisa Frisa, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

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