Fashion and Art

by Adam Geczy (Editor), Vicki Karaminas (Editor)

Overview

For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.

Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world's foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art-fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media.

Original and inspiring, this book will not only secure 'art-fashion' as a discrete area of study, but also suggest new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination. Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies and related fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857852144
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer. He is Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, and author of several books including (with Michael Carter) Reframing Art (Berg, 2005) and Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions (Berg, 2008), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009.

Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is the Executive Director and Chair of Fashion for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Chair for Subcultural Style and Identity for the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. She is the editor of The Men's Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009), Fashion in Fiction (Berg, 2009) and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.
Adam Geczy is an artist and writer who teaches at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney, Australia.


Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Design, Massey University, New Zealand, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas
1. Fashion: Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA
2. Art: Nancy Troy, Stanford University, USA
3. Aesthetics: Llewellyn Negrin, University of Tasmania, Australia
4. Modernity: Adam Geczy, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia
5. Conceptual: Hazel Clark, Parsons the New School of Design, USA
6. Body: Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota, USA
7. Beauty: Morag Martin, State University of New York, USA
8. Boundaries: Diana Crane, University of Pennsylvania, USA
9. Authenticity: Efrat Tseëlon, Leeds University, UK
10. Performance: Herbert Blau, University of Washington, USA
11. Dressing up: Mary Gluck, Brown University, USA
12. Clothing: Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland, Australia
13. Patronage: Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts, London, UK
14. Painting: Aileen Ribeiro, University of London, UK
15. Image: Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
16. Exhibition: Alistair O'Neil, Central St Martins, London, UK
17. Curatorial: Barbara Heinemann, Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota, USA
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A book that both traces, and participates in, the decay of the idea that Fashion is the superficial Other of Art. Between the covers of this book lies all the evidence one might need about the sustained collaboration between modernist artists and fashion designers. Through a wealth of historical detail and conceptual sophistication this book tells a fascinating story whose relevance will lie far beyond Fashion Studies.
Michael Carter

Finally a book on the complex relationship between art and fashion adopts a different approach. Instead of the usual attempts to decide where the boundary lines might be drawn, this anthology examines the areas where art and fashion meet. These essays are not only vital for scholars and students within both disciplines - for anyone and everyone, this is a highly enjoyable book.
Pamela Church Gibson, Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London

There have been previous books written on Fashion and Art, but none is of this standard. In its reach and sophistication, this book is a stand-alone in its field. For many years, fashion and art have been points of discussion and debate, and the subject of isolated disciplinary studies. Geczy and Karaminas and the key authors assembled here have done us a great service in elevating this topic to an area of serious interdisciplinary study, giving it coherence and circumscription. Fashion and Art is a landmark book for whose appearance couldn't be more timely.
Joseph H. Hancock II. Drexel University, Philadelphia.

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