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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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| 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.