ARTH 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Southwest China, Deutsches Museum, Museology
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On exam, you can use your exhibition review as an example to an essay question. Video (posted on courselink, news page): writing with thread. Can use as a for instance example for question on exam. Talking about concepts of exhibition and the design. Theme of clothing and embroidery tells stories, myths and legends of the people who made them. It was their way of writing and telling these stories. Most of the cultures studied had oral traditions (no written language) In many oral tradition culture it was really the women who were writing the stories down (needles as pen and thread as ink: documenting their histories through embroidery. Writing with thread: distinction and honour to the women who made the textiles and continue their tradition. Men made the jewellery and used the same motifs, symbols in embroidery. Together documenting culture and continuing it from one generation to the next and their history.