Fans
Published on 1. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-0-7478-0402-4 (ISBN)
Description
Traces the history of fans from biblical times to the present day.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7478-0402-4 (9780747804024)
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Person
Helene Alexander FRSA has collected fans for over thirty years, lectured extensively on this subject in Britain and the USA and has many articles published. She has mounted numerous exhibitions of fans throughout England, usually producing a catalogue, and has sent fans and fan leaves from her collection to France, Germany, Italy and the USA, besides the British Museum and other museums in Britain. She was founder president of the Fan Circle International. In 1991 she founded The Fan Museum and is currently President of the Fan Museum Trust, as well as honorary Director and Curator of this small but unique award-winning specialised museum.
Content
The earliest fans; From fixed to folding fans; Fans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Fans of the nineteenth century; Fans in modern times; Glossary; Further reading; Places to visit