<i>Fashion, Performance, and Performativity</i> is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism.

Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland

In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal ‘complex space’ – or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.

Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.

Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari

Transformations and Translations
1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity
Francesca Granata

2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective.
Karima Al Shomely

3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory.
Paul Jobling

Stages and Places
4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance.
Emmanuel Cohen

5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse.
Jacki Willson

6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa.
Victoria L. Rovine

7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics.
Jonathan Michael Square

Models and Poses
8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph.
Karen de Perthuis

9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity.
Gabriele Monti

10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012.
Louise Wallenberg

11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing.
Royce Mahawatte

List of Contributors
Index

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International experts explore cases such as magazines, photography, exhibitions, global divides and digital media in the first study of the connections between fashion, performance and performativity.
The first book-length study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity
Dress Cultures publishes the best international scholarship in the study of dress practices historically and in the contemporary world. Bringing into creative dialogue a wide range of approaches, titles in the series explore the aesthetic and social relationships between dress, fashion and the body. Our authors investigate dress within material culture, as a field to be explored sociologically and politically, and from the perspective of economics and local and globalised fashion industries.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350275386
Publisert
2023-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Vekt
360 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

Om bidragsyterne

Andrea Kollnitz is Associate Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden and (with Louise Wallenberg) editor of Fashion and Modernism (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019).

Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor at Parsons Paris, The New School, France and author of Fashion Remains (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).