Barbieri, Donatella (2017) Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture and the Body. Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York. ISBN 978-1-4742-3687-4
Type of Research: | Book |
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Creators: | Barbieri, Donatella |
Description: | This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the 'fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance. With a chapter contribution by Melissa Trimingham |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Costume and culture |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion |
Date: | 15 June 2017 |
Funders: | Society of Theatre Research, London College of Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum |
Related Websites: | http://www.encountersinthearchive.com, http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/research-journal/issue-no.-4-summer-2012/encounters-in-the-archive-reflections-on-costume/, http://www.encountersinthearchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Re-Encounters.pdf |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2018 09:43 |
Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2020 13:02 |
Item ID: | 10890 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/10890 |
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