Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice

McNeil, PK; Miller, S

Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice

McNeil, PK

Miller, S

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Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Type:: Book
Citation:: 2014, 1, pp. 1 - 151 (151)
Issue Date:: 2014-01

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dc.contributor.author	McNeil, PK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Miller, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2014, 1, pp. 1 - 151 (151)	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-8578-5446-9	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/77061
dc.description.abstract	This is the first book to connect shifts in critical writing and approaches to fashion over a long span of time, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Beginning with the power of Aristotles Poetics, it explains that the plot which is the most important of the six constituent parts of the `tragedy is, after all, story telling, but story telling to be compelling must have drama and embody insights. Why did evaluative thinking emerge at all? What does criticism mean? How did criticism expand beyond the fine arts to the camera and other new media? How did the great critics reflect on the social, artistic and aesthetic changes that revolutionized fashion since the first texts about sartorial dress were published in the first fashion magazines of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? The role of taste in eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics will be directly related to assessments of fashion in that period. How did a judicial (evaluative) vocabulary for fashion journalism emerge in the nineteenth century and where did it lead?	en_US
dc.publisher	Bloomsbury Academic	en_US
dc.title	Fashion Writing and Criticism: History, Theory, Practice	en_US
dc.type	Book
utslib.location	London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney	en_US
utslib.for	120301 Design History and Theory	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
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Abstract:

This is the first book to connect shifts in critical writing and approaches to fashion over a long span of time, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Beginning with the power of Aristotles Poetics, it explains that the plot which is the most important of the six constituent parts of the `tragedy is, after all, story telling, but story telling to be compelling must have drama and embody insights. Why did evaluative thinking emerge at all? What does criticism mean? How did criticism expand beyond the fine arts to the camera and other new media? How did the great critics reflect on the social, artistic and aesthetic changes that revolutionized fashion since the first texts about sartorial dress were published in the first fashion magazines of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? The role of taste in eighteenth-century philosophical aesthetics will be directly related to assessments of fashion in that period. How did a judicial (evaluative) vocabulary for fashion journalism emerge in the nineteenth century and where did it lead?

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