Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women book cover

1st Edition

Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics Fair Women

By Meaghan Clarke Copyright 2020
220 Pages 27 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 27 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 27 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more

Part I The Exhibition;

1. Exhibiting Fair Women;

2. ‘Feminine weapons’: Women, Collecting and Connoisseurship;

Part II Modern Fair Women;

3. Performing the Modern Woman: Actresses, Celebrity Culture and Exhibitions;

4. (Re)envisioning New Women: Eveleen Myers and Gertrude Campbell;

Part III Fair Women Redux;

5. Re-inventing Fair Women: Women, Exhibitions and Art Writing;

6. International Fair Women;

Epilogue

Biography

Meaghan Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex, UK.

"A timely and substantial exploration of the display of fashion and the decorative arts in modern exhibition culture."

- Lara Perry, University of Brighton

Add to Cart