Establishing Dress History' will appeal not only to students and academics bt all those those with an interest in the history of dress and fashion. The title fuses together two areas of current academic interest, dress design and history, and current museum studies approaches.
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally broken free of the shackles that have held it back, and is now benefiting from new, multidisciplinary approaches and practices, which draw on material culture, art history, ethnography, and cultural studies. This book focuses on the development of these new methods to be found within the field of dress history and dress studies, and assesses the current condition and future directions of the subject.
First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history.
In this gathering of poems, award-winning poet Lou Barrett connects childhood with youth, youth with maturity, maturity with age and wisdom. She connects generation with generation, past with present, present with future, person with person. No poet embraces life more openly, more passionately, more intensely. Lou Barrett is a writer of intimacy and intoxication and wonders and splendors. "Connecting Flights" is a book to read again and again.
First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata. The result is a book which is not only of major importance to students of the history of dress but also to anyone who enjoys social history.
In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in television, film and theater, from live television to Broadway to Emmy-nominated Movies of the Week. Antonio describes with humor and insight the changes in audience tastes and technical developments during his career, and the unforeseen challenges of pursuing a life in the performing arts. Anecdotes abound of his work with Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, George C. Scott, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, and others.
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