Lou Taylor

The study of dress history

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. -- .

Produktdetails

• Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780719040658
• ISBN-10: 0719040655
• Artikelnr.: 21976702

Autorenporträt

Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton and author of Mourning Dress: a costume and social history (1983) and, with Elizabeth Wilson, Through the looking glass (1989)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Artefact-based approaches: collection, identification,
conservation 2. Artefact-based approaches: display and interpretation 3.
Approaches based on social, economic history, material culture and cultural
studies 4. Approaches using literary sources 5. Approaches using visual
analysis: paintings, drawings and cartoons 6. Approaches using visual
analysis of photography and film 7. Ethnographical approaches 8. Approaches
using oral history Conclusion