UID:
almahu_9949386447102882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780429619984
,
0429619987
,
9780429622137
,
0429622139
,
9780429054785
,
0429054785
,
9780429617836
,
0429617836
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies
Content:
Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer's taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820-1920, as part of the larger project of modernism across the artistic and cultural field, the functions of "clothing" and "costume" diverged. Onstage apparel took on a more specific semiotic task, acting as a fresh channel for the flow of information between the performer, the literary text, and the spectator. Modernizing Costume Design traces how five kinds of artists - directors, performers, writers, couturiers, and painters - made key contributions to this new model of costume dHolt showsltshows that by 1920, costume design shifted in status from craft to art
Note:
Introduction: arguing costume design -- Material truths : directors, historicism, and Shakespearean designs -- Frocks and fictions : actresses, personae, and costume design -- Writing the modern body : the queerness of costume stage directions -- Life imitates art : couture, costumes, and commercialism -- Body as art(ifact) or machine : visual artists design for the Ballets Russes -- Postlude: designing modernism.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Holt, Annie. Modernizing costume design, 1820-1920. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780429619984
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History
DOI:
10.4324/9780429054785
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429054785
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