Extravagances

by Giorcelli, Cristina Rabinowitz, Paula

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"This four-volume English-language series extracts more than forty of the best essays included in the ongoing editions Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and published since 1995 by Edizioni Associate (volumes 1/3) and Ila Palma Press (volumes 4/12) of Rome, Italy. Habits of Being augments these Italian-published essays with newly commissioned ones and with examples of work by contemporary artists who explore the interface between text and …

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Full title :Extravagances / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors.

Summary

"This four-volume English-language series extracts more than forty of the best essays included in the ongoing editions Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and published since 1995 by Edizioni Associate (volumes 1/3) and Ila Palma Press (volumes 4/12) of Rome, Italy. Habits of Being augments these Italian-published essays with newly commissioned ones and with examples of work by contemporary artists who explore the interface between text and textile. The result of almost two decades of research by international teams of scholars from Algeria, France, Hungary, Italy, and the United States, the series focuses on the multiple forms and meanings attached to various articles of clothing in literature, film, performance, art, and other cultural arenas as well as on the social, economic, and semiotic connotations of clothing. Bringing together the work of literary and film critics, art and fashion historians, semioticians, sociologists, historians, and ethnographers, as well as psychoanalysts, artists, and fashion designers, these books offer an English-speaking audience a rare glimpse of the important studies being published in Italy, that most modish of nations."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

Notes

Includes some articles translated from Italian and taken from Abito e identità.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780816697281, 0816697280, 9780816697298, 0816697299
oclc:ocn908698905
LC Classification:TT504
Dewey Decimal:646/.3

Clothing, dress, fashion: an arcade -- Introduction: Worn out of bounds / Paula Rabinowitz -- When women speak...their clothes talk / Mariapia Bobbioni -- An accessory is a gesture: in conversation with Cristina Giorcelli / Guillermo Mariotto -- Wearing a crown / Paola Colaiacomo -- Earnings in American literature: a showcase / Cristina Giorcelli -- Buttons, buttons, and more buttons! / Margherita Di Fazio -- Curse of the corsage: femmes fatales and the can-do girl / Charlotte Nekola -- Schiaparelli's convulsive gloves / Victoria R. Pass -- Frock and bracelet in omeros / Maria Anita Stefanelli -- Kahlo and O'Keeffe: portrait of the artist as fashion icon / Paula Rabinowitz -- Strays / Tarrah Krajnak -- The erotic play of the veil: tapadas in Lima / Camilla Cattarulla -- Clad in the bloody livery: fashion and color during Argentina's civil war / Amana Salvioni -- To fashion the wonderful garment: W.E.B. Du Bois's the quest of the silver fleece and Nella Larsen's quicksand / Giulia Fabi -- Subtle and spectacular: dressing in kalabari style / Joanne B. Eicher -- Shmata mash-up: A jewette for two voices / Maria Damon and Adeena Karasick -- Coda. Fashion's strategies of communication a…

Subjects

Clothing and dress Clothing and dress -- History Clothing and dress in literature Dress accessories Dress accessories -- History Fashion Fashion -- History Fashion in literature History Minnesota -- Authors (Books by) Richesse dans la littérature Vêtements -- Accessoires Wealth in literature