Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Author:   Amanda Grace Sikarskie
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
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9781442263642


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   08 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Amanda Grace Sikarskie
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.395kg
ISBN:  

9781442263642


ISBN 10:   1442263644
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   08 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Ada Lovelace and Weaving the Digital Chapter One: Preservation Chapter Two: Access Chapter Three: Curation Chapter Four: Interpretation Post-script: Meditations on Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Bibliography Index About the Author

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Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation and Interpretation in a Digital Age will delight and intrigue the textile archive specialist and non-specialist alike. Sikarskie fluidly merges pop culture with curatorial best practice, raising intriguing and provocative possibilities of the digital age in the curation and interpretation of textile collections. -- Sarah Scatturo, Conservator, The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation and Interpretation in a Digital Age will delight and intrigue the textile archive specialist and non-specialist alike. Sikarskie fluidly merges pop culture with curatorial best practice, raising intriguing and provocative possibilities of the digital age in the curation and interpretation of textile collections. --Sarah Scaturro, Conservator, The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. -- Sarah Scatturo, Conservator, The Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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Amanda Grace Sikarskie is a textile historian, educator, museum practitioner, and blogger whose work investigates material culture-especially textiles-in the digital age. Since receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies in 2011 from Michigan State University, she has taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses at Michigan State University and Western Michigan University, including Museum Technology, Museum Studies, Popular Art & Architecture in America, Historic Preservation, and Cultural Resource Management. Dr. Sikarskie also holds graduate certificates in Museum Studies (2008) and Humanities Computing (2005).

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