Research Catalog

Title

Weaving Europe, crafting the museum : textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin / Magdalena Buchczyk.

Author

Buchczyk, Magdalena

Publication

• London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

x, 209 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm

Summary

"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."--

Alternative Title

Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin

Subject

• Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin, Germany) > Catalogs
• Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin, Germany)
• Textile fabrics > Europe > History > Catalogs
• Weaving > History > Catalogs
• Museum objects > Research
• Textile fabrics
• Weaving
• Museum objects
• Research
• Europe

Genre/Form

• Catalogs.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.

Contents

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 -- 2. Carpets: Knotted histories, recurrent patterns. Nationalist folklore ; School and museum ; Regained Territories ; Post-war reconstruction ; Truly Polish craft ; Scraps ; Recurrent patterns -- 3. Woven basket: Untethered art. Trader in exotica ; Survivors ; Waiting ; Thread ; On demand ; Valuing work ; Stubborn survival -- 4. Waistcoat: Colour and Cold War. Language island ; Go West ; Perforating the Iron Curtain? ; Vestige -- 5. Cook's uniform: Refashioning the social fabric. Renewal ; Reorientation ; Blue-collar museum ; House ghosts ; Costume/fashion -- Conclusion: From unification to prefiguration -- Collection reconceptualized -- Other futures -- Prefigurative acquisition -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JQE 24-334

ISBN

• 9781350226739
• 1350226734
• 9781350226753 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350226746 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1372440749

Author

Buchczyk, Magdalena, author.

Title

Weaving Europe, crafting the museum : textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin / Magdalena Buchczyk.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Buchczyk, Magdalena. Weaving Europe, crafting the museum. [London] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350226760 (OCoLC)1380735879

Research Call Number

JQE 24-334