Patrimonial narratives: analysis of the thematic and the museographic choices of exhibitions about fashion

Authors

  • Rafaela Norogrando

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26563/dobras.v8i18.109

Keywords:

fashion exhibitions, cultural construction, memory, museography.

Abstract

This paper aims to reflect the cultural historical construction that is made about fashion and design. It presents a spread sheet that acts as tool of verification of the choices had been made in fashion exhibitions. It was used two methodological approaches: (1) quantitative:
based on the synopsis of fashion exhibitions around of the world. This procedure resulted in a data collecting of 459 exhibitions analysed for its thematic choices. (2) qualitative: of these exhibitions were highlighted 29 for case studies to verify the context and conceptual choices. Careful to include a representative number of institutions have had it (total of 11 museums) by distinct features and geopolitical range (six different countries). As a result, this paper presented the themes have been made about fashion on exhibitions, focused in recent years (2008-2015), and other proposals regarding the world of fashion and design. Moreover, is conducted a confrontation with the thematic and the communication tools of the exhibition space. As conclusion the predilection for some approaches are verified and is defended it walk through of these standards for an expansion of the patrimonial construction of the universe of the fashion, as material and intangible culture.

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Published

2015-12-31

How to Cite

NOROGRANDO, R. Patrimonial narratives: analysis of the thematic and the museographic choices of exhibitions about fashion. dObra[s] – revista da Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Pesquisas em Moda, [S. l.], v. 8, n. 18, p. 123–131, 2015. DOI: 10.26563/dobras.v8i18.109. Disponível em: https://dobras.emnuvens.com.br/dobras/article/view/109. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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