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Experimental fashion : performance art, carnival and the grotesque body
- Title
- Experimental fashion : performance art, carnival and the grotesque body / Francesca Granata.
- Author
- Granata, Francesca
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Series Statement
- Dress Cultures
- Uniform Title
- Dress cultures.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-210), filmography (page 211) and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 17-397
- ISBN
- 9781784533786
- 1784533785
- 9781784533793
- 1784533793
- OCLC
- 971598705
- Author
- Granata, Francesca, author.
- Title
- Experimental fashion : performance art, carnival and the grotesque body / Francesca Granata.
- Publisher
- London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Description
- xiii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Dress CulturesDress cultures.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-210), filmography (page 211) and index.
- Summary
- Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 17-397