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  • Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

    Experimental Fashion by Granata, Francesca;

    Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

    Series: Dress Cultures;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher I.B. Tauris
    • Date of Publication 23 February 2017
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781784533786
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages232 pages
    • Size 236x160x22 mm
    • Weight 480 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 52 integrated bw
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    Long description:

    Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award

    Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction


    Chapter 1 Against Power Dressing: Georgina Godley

    Chapter 2 Fashioning the Maternal Body: Rei Kawakubo

    Chapter 3 Performing Pregnancy: Leigh Bowery

    Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela

    Chapter 5 Carnivalized Time: Martin Margiela

    Chapter 6 Carnival Iconography: Bernhard Willhelm

    Chapter 7 Fashion and Performance: Lady Gaga

    Conclusion
    Appendix
    Bibliography
    Index

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