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The Concise Dictionary Of Dress

The Concise Dictionary Of Dress

Norbert Schoerner
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A brilliant amalgam of psychoanalysis, literature, art and couture, The Concise Dictionary of Dress is bestselling author and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and fashion curator Judith Clark's inventive recasting of dress in terms of anxiety and desire. The book is structured as a dictionary, but an unusual one: Each entry--for words including -armor, - -brash, - -comfortable, - -conformist, - -diaphanous, - -essential, - -fashionable, - -loose, - -measured, - -plain, - -provocative, - -revealing, - -sharp, - -tight- and so on--is elucidated by a litany of highly unconventional definitions. -Loose, - for example, is defined as -1. Never knowingly over-attached; a disappearing act. 2. A moveable feast; not conforming to contour or arrangement; subject to influence and gravity; seeking direction. 3. Of uncertain boundary.- Phillips' entries in The Concise Dictionary of Dress are paired with photographs of installations that Clark created among the rolling racks, rambling corridors and high-security vaults of the Victoria & Albert Museum's vast reserve collections at Blythe House in west London. Cast objects and photographs, tableaux of clothing and accessories and metaphors of repression and ceremony continue the conversation. Phillips said that viewing the works at Blythe House is -like looking up a word in a dictionary and finding a picture instead of more words; it is not clear whether the word and its definition are the caption, or vice versa.-
Judith Clark is Reader in the field of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion, where she is Director of M.A. Fashion Curation. Clark opened the first independent gallery of dress in 1998, and has since curated major exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, ModeMuseum in Antwerp, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips is the author of 14 acclaimed books, most recently Side Effects and On Kindness . He is the editor of the New Penguin Freud translations, and a regular reviewer for the London Review of Books.
Norbert Schoener is a German photographer and filmmaker, and the author of The Order of Things. He has exhibited at White Cube, Comme des Garcons and Chapman Fine Arts.
Language
English
Pages
134
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Violette Editions
Release
July 31, 2010
ISBN
1900828359
ISBN 13
9781900828352

The Concise Dictionary Of Dress

Norbert Schoerner
2.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
A brilliant amalgam of psychoanalysis, literature, art and couture, The Concise Dictionary of Dress is bestselling author and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and fashion curator Judith Clark's inventive recasting of dress in terms of anxiety and desire. The book is structured as a dictionary, but an unusual one: Each entry--for words including -armor, - -brash, - -comfortable, - -conformist, - -diaphanous, - -essential, - -fashionable, - -loose, - -measured, - -plain, - -provocative, - -revealing, - -sharp, - -tight- and so on--is elucidated by a litany of highly unconventional definitions. -Loose, - for example, is defined as -1. Never knowingly over-attached; a disappearing act. 2. A moveable feast; not conforming to contour or arrangement; subject to influence and gravity; seeking direction. 3. Of uncertain boundary.- Phillips' entries in The Concise Dictionary of Dress are paired with photographs of installations that Clark created among the rolling racks, rambling corridors and high-security vaults of the Victoria & Albert Museum's vast reserve collections at Blythe House in west London. Cast objects and photographs, tableaux of clothing and accessories and metaphors of repression and ceremony continue the conversation. Phillips said that viewing the works at Blythe House is -like looking up a word in a dictionary and finding a picture instead of more words; it is not clear whether the word and its definition are the caption, or vice versa.-
Judith Clark is Reader in the field of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion, where she is Director of M.A. Fashion Curation. Clark opened the first independent gallery of dress in 1998, and has since curated major exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, ModeMuseum in Antwerp, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips is the author of 14 acclaimed books, most recently Side Effects and On Kindness . He is the editor of the New Penguin Freud translations, and a regular reviewer for the London Review of Books.
Norbert Schoener is a German photographer and filmmaker, and the author of The Order of Things. He has exhibited at White Cube, Comme des Garcons and Chapman Fine Arts.
Language
English
Pages
134
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Violette Editions
Release
July 31, 2010
ISBN
1900828359
ISBN 13
9781900828352

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