McDowell, Felice (2016) Writing about Posing: myths and narratives of post-war fashion modelling. In: Posing the Body: Stillness, Movement, and Representation, 6 - 7 May 2016, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN / University of Westminster, Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.
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Type of Research: | Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item |
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Creators: | McDowell, Felice |
Description: | Abstract: In its engagement with this latter approach this paper discusses textual accounts of posing, which can be read in writings of this period that specifically engage with the subject of photographic models and the working lives of fashion models. Drawing upon a range of ‘fashion texts’, including autobiographies, advice literature, and literary fiction, debates concerning aspects of production, consumption, femininity, and notions of the self, emerge. In its close look at how ‘the pose’ and ‘posing’ is discursively performed in such forms of textual representation, this paper questions the myths and narratives that inform meanings, both past and present, around this performative act. |
Official Website: | http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/posing-the-body-stillness-movement-and-representation |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Life-writing, Fashion Models |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion |
Date: | 7 May 2016 |
Event Location: | The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN / University of Westminster, Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2016 11:04 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2016 11:06 |
Item ID: | 9335 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9335 |
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