____________________________________ From: medtc-disc...@yahoogroups.com Reply-to: notify-dg-medtc-disc...@yahoogroups.com To: medtc-disc...@yahoogroups.com Sent: 1/16/2010 5:07:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time Subj: [MEDTC-DISCUSS] Digest Number 156
Thought this exhibition would be of interest. http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/exhibitions/on_a_pedestal/index.shtml runs to September 20, 2010 >From the museum's website: The exhibition explores two of the most extreme forms of footwear ever worn in Western fashion, the outrageous platform chopine and its eventual replacement, the high heel. On a Pedestal offers visitors a once in a lifetime opportunity to see exceptionally rare examples of Renaissance and Baroque footwear on loan from numerous renowned International museums including: Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museo Bardini, Florence; Castello Sforzesco, Milan; Livrustkammaren and Skoklosters Slott, both Stockholm; Museo Palazzo Mocenigo and Museo Correr, both Venice; Ambras Castle, Austria; Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto as well as shoes from the Bata Shoe Museum's own collection. Catalog of exhibition: Semmelhack, Elizabeth. On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque Heels. Toronto: Bata Shoe Museum, 2009. 26cm., pbk., 115pp., 77 color illus. ISBN: 9780921638209 0921638205 OCLC: 445231795 Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Ont., Nov. 18, 2009-Sept. 10, 2010. >From the museum shop: http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/museum_shop/index.shtml Written by Bata Shoe Museum Senior Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack, this fascinating and beautiful book explores the social history of elevating footwear. #1606, $30.00 (substantially more elsewhere) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
