Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today
By (Author) Fiona Fisher
Edited by Trevor Keeble
Edited by Patricia Lara-Betancourt
Edited by Brenda Martin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Berg Publishers
1st December 2011
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of architecture
Fashion and textile design
History of art
History of design
747.09
Physical Properties
Hardback
352
Width 189mm, Height 244mm
744g
Description
Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior examines the interior as a stage upon which modern life and lifestyles are consciously fashioned and performed, and from which modern identities are projected by and through design.
Scholars from Europe, Canada, America and Australia present a range of interior environments - domestic interiors, sets for stage and film, exhibition spaces, art galleries, hotel lobbies, cafs and retail spaces - to explore each as an intersection of fashion, lifestyle and performance. Sharing the thesis that the fashionably-dressed body and the interior can be seen as part of the same creative and expressive continuum, the essays highlight the ways in which interiors can give shape to and dramatise modern life.
Author Bio
Fiona Fisher and Patricia Lara-Betancourt are Postdoctoral Researchers in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, London.
Trevor Keeble is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University.
Brenda Martin is the Curator of the Dorich House Museum at Kingston University.
