Extravagances /
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/...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Includes some articles translated from Italian and taken from Abito e identità. |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Habits of being ;
4. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780816697281 0816697280 9780816697298 0816697299 |