Modernizing costume design, 1820-1920 /

"Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer's taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820-1920, as part of the larger proje...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holt, Annie, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Arguing costume design
  • Material truths : directors, historicism, and Shakespearean designs
  • Frocks and fictions : actresses, personae, and costume design
  • Writing the modern body : the queerness of costume stage directions
  • Life imitates art : couture, costumes, and commercialism
  • Body as art(ifact) or machine : visual artists design for the Ballets Russes
  • Postlude: Designing modernism.