Name/Title
Refashioning and redress : conserving and displaying dressEntry/Object ID
TS1449.R44Description
This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress examines the ways in which these seemingly static exhibitions of “costume” or “fashion” are actively engaged in cultural production. The seventeen case studies included here reflect a broad range of practice and are presented by conservators, curators, makers, and researchers from around the world, exposing changing approaches and actions at different times and in different places. Ranging from the practical to the conceptual, these contributions demonstrate the material, social, and philosophical interactions inherent in the conservation and display of dress and draw upon diverse disciplines ranging from dress history to social history, material cultural studies to fashion studies, and conservation to museology. Case studies include fashion as spectacle in the museum, dress as political and personal memorialization, and theatrical dress, as well as dress from living indigenous cultures, dress in fragments, and dress online.Lexicon
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check call number, clothing and dress--conservation and restoration, costume--conservation and restoration, textile fabrics--preservationBook Details
Author
Mary M. Brooks, Dinah D. EastopPublisher
Getty Conservation InstituteDate Published
2016Call No.
TS1449.R44ISBN
1606065114, 9781606065112LCCN
2016019987Notes
Length: 256General Notes
Note
Gift of the J. Paul Getty Museum, February 2019.