| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Annie Holt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Central Oklahoma, USA. Her research focuses on costume design and embodiment, including articles in Studies in Costume and Performance, Theatre and Performance Design, and Mime Journal |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2020) |
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Costume design -- History -- 19th century
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Costume design -- History -- 20th century
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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ART -- History -- General.
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Costume design
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429619984 |
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0429619987 |
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9780429622137 |
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0429622139 |
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9780429054785 |
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0429054785 |
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9780429617836 |
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0429617836 |
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