{"product_id":"handbags-the-making-of-a-museum-9780300186185","title":"Handbags: The Making of a Museum","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHandbags: The Making of a Museum\u003c\/strong\u003e by Wilcox, Claire. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300186185.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production\n\nThe history of the handbag—its design, how it has been made, used, and worn—reveals something essential about womens lives over the past 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object of desire, secrecy, and even fear. Handbags explores these rich histories and multiple meanings.\nThis book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.\nEssays by leading fashion historians and an acclaimed psychoanalyst investigate the history of gesture, the psychoanalysis of bags, and the museums state-of-the-art mannequins and archive cabinets. In order to preserve the words that describe the unique qualities of each bag, a terminology of handbags has been compiled.\n\nPublished in association with the Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985065898037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300186185","price":55.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300186185_12ee7676-941c-4eff-aa01-61e538a8b52c.jpg?v=1778788637","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/handbags-the-making-of-a-museum-9780300186185","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}