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"This book takes a diverse selection of prints and posters by artists from Africa and the African diaspora, and explores their role as a medium for social and political commentary, and as graphic expressions of personal identity, history and memory."--Back cover. This book explores prints from Africa and the African diaspora since 1960. As an accessible medium, print bridges the space between fine and commercial art as a vehicle for expression and carries with it a tradition of satire and protest, both social and political. Above all, prints are a means of communication and cultural exchange and, in the context of Africa and the African diaspora, these qualities have had a particular resonance. This book presents and interprets a variety of visual images from the V & A collections in terms of their political and social context, while also addressing their identity as art and design. It includes prints by Uzo Egonu, Carrie Mae Weems, and Chris Ofili, among others, as well as work with an overt political purpose, such as posters attacking the Apartheid policies of South Africa, and material produced by American Black Power organizations such as the Black Panthers.

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Publisher's text about the volume: With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Fashion: An Anthology by Cecil Beaton, revealing it to be symptomatic of a shift in museological attitudes. The authors' combined experience of more than forty years, one in architecture and exhibition design and the other in fashion history and curating, informs their detailed account of the exhibition. Accompanied by photographs of Beaton's museum work published here for the first time, their narrative establishes a perspective from which to view working practices today. Research into international exhibitions from the early 20th century to the present results in some 150 stunning illustrations, including previously unpublished exhibition photographs and out-of-print documents. Through this research and the testimony of curators, exhibition designers, and mannequin manufacturers, the authors discover striking continuity in the development of the fundamental equation of mannequin, dress, and mise-en-scène. A comprehensive chronology from 1971 illustrates the exponential rise in exhibitions of Western dress on an international scale.

Fashion --- 907.7 --- tentoonstellingsopbouw --- 369.6 --- 766.7 --- tentoonstellingen --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Exhibitions --- History. --- geschiedenis, klederdrachten, bijzondere onderwerpen --- bedrijfseconomie, etaleren - organisatie en inrichting van tentoonstellingen --- reclamefotografie, modelfotografie --- Beaton, Cecil, --- Exhibitions. --- Victoria and Albert Museum --- Victoria & Albert Museum --- Viktoria und Albert Museum --- Great Britain. --- V & A (Museum) --- Muzeʼon Ṿiḳṭoryah-Alberṭ --- Muzeĭ Viktorii i Alʹberta --- Музей Виктории и Альберта --- South Kensington Museum --- Science Museum (Great Britain) --- Museum of Ornamental Art --- Victoria & Albert museum --- V&A --- South Kensington museum --- Museum of manufactures --- Victoria and Albert museum --- Mode --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Exhibitions&delete& --- History --- Fashion. --- 1900-2099. --- Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, -- 1904-1980. --- Victoria and Albert Museum.