What's Inside?
A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900-1999
Published on 7. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-1-944528-86-7 (ISBN)
Description
Explore concepts of art, history, and the feminine as you conjure the lives and habits of 20th century American women through the purses they carried. What's Inside compliments the permanent exhibition of ESSE Museum & Store, one of only three purse museums in the world.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
52 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-944528-86-7 (9781944528867)
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Anita Davis is a native Arkansan and lifelong collector who loves outsider art, Gladys Knight, dream work, and learning about the mysteries of life. Her varied life experience includes owning a mail-order catalog called Pure and Simple in the 1980s. She has a talent for finding valuables ("They're valuable to me!") in unexpected places and has led the revitalization of Little Rock's SoMa neighborhood in which ESSE Purse Museum & Store is located. What's Inside is an extension of her endeavor to explore concepts of art, history, and the feminine at ESSE-the only purse museum in the United States and one of only three in the world.