SPAH Seminar Series Week 3: Dr Rosalind McKever

Part of the SPAH Seminar Series, Rosalind McKever gives a talk on 'Curating "Fashioning Masculinities"'

The V&A is staging its first major exhibition dedicated to menswear. But how to curate on this theme at a moment when dressing beyond the binary has unprecedented visibility within and beyond the fashion industry? In this paper, I will talk about how 'Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear' brings artworks – from Moroni’s The Tailor to Cassils’ Tiresias – together with historical and contemporary fashion to look at how designers and artists, and their clients and sitters, have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.

About the speaker:
Dr Rosalind McKever is Curator of Paintings and Drawings at the V&A and co-curator of the exhibition ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’. A specialist in modern European – especially Italian – art, her research explores its relationships with time and fashion. Rosalind has previously worked at the National Gallery, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and taught at the University of Sussex.

If you cannot attend in person, please email spahpg@essex.ac.uk for the Zoom link.

 Image: Cover of the 'Fashioning Masculinities' catalogue, featuring Omar Victor Diop, Jean-Baptiste Belley, photograph, 2014.