Weaving Europe, crafting the museum : Textiles, history and ethnography at the museum of European cultures, Berlin / / Magdalena Buchczyk

• Autore: Buchczyk Magdalena
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, , 2020; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Disciplina: 677
• Soggetto topico: Cultural property; Textile fabrics; Weaving - Europe; Material culture; Textile artworks; Textile design & theory
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Textiles beyond the folkloric -- Fieldwork trajectory -- Textural ethnography -- The problem of crafting collections -- Outline of the book -- 1 Sample collection: Dreams and archives -- Encounter -- A place for the museum -- Textile archives -- World stage -- Conclusion -- 2 Carpets: Knotted histories, recurrent patterns -- Nationalist folklore -- School and museum -- Regained Territories -- Post-war reconstruction -- Truly Polish craft -- Scraps -- Recurrent patterns -- Conclusion -- 3 Woven basket: Untethered art -- Trader in exotica -- Survivors -- Waiting -- Thread -- Weaving on demand -- Valuing work -- Stubborn survival -- 4 Waistcoat: Colour and Cold War -- Language island -- Go West -- Perforating the Iron Curtain? -- Vestige -- Conclusion -- 5 Cook's uniform: Refashioning the social fabric -- Renewal -- Reorientation -- Blue-collar museum -- House ghosts -- Costume/fashion -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: From unification to prefiguration -- Collection reimagined -- Other futures -- Prefigurative collection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum 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. Each 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. Featuring 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum
• ISBN: 9781350226753; 1350226750; 9781350226760; 1350226769; 9781350226746; 1350226742
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911154353703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II