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Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics - Fair Women (Paperback)
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Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics - Fair Women (Paperback)
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
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Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a 'blockbuster'
exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great
fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of
both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as
decorative objects. Meaghan Clarke argues that the exhibition
challenged contemporary assumptions about the representation of
women and the superficiality of female collectors. The Fair Women
phenomenon complicated gender stereotypes and foregrounded women as
cultural arbiters. This book uncovers a wide range of texts and
images to reveal that Fair Women brought together fashion,
modernity and gender politics in new and surprising ways. It shows
that, while invariably absent in institutional histories, women
were vital to the development of the modern blockbuster exhibition.
This book will be of interest to scholars in art and gender
studies, museum studies, feminist art history, women artists and
art history.
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