Fashionability Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics


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<p>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. </p><p>Meaghan Clarke argues that the exhibition challenged contemporary assumptions about the representation of women and the superficiality of female collectors. The <i>Fair Women</i> phenomenon complicated gender stereotypes and foregrounded women as cultural arbiters. This book uncovers a wide range of texts and images to reveal that <i>Fair Women</i> 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. </p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars in art and gender studies museum studies feminist art history women artists and art history.</p>
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