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Fashion and Art
Author(s): Adam Geczy (Editor), Vicki Karaminas
- Publisher: Berg Publishers
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 184788783X
- ISBN-13: 9781847887832
Book Description
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.Editorial Reviews
Review
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.
About the Author
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.
