[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Fashion and Material Culture (6/15/07; MAPACA, 11/2/07-11/4/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR | AMERICAN CULTURE  ASSOCIATION
2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
November 2-4,  2007
Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel
Philadelphia


Attire and fashion condition  and are conditioned by contemporary
popular culture across its "high/low"  territories: from designer
(Giorgio Armani) to TV (Oscar Awards) to cinema (The Devil Wears Prada
or Marie Antoinette) to music (Madonna) to the art world (artist,
artwork, critic, art dealer, consultant, collector, auctioneer, curator,
museum director) to photography (Richard Avedon) to printed media
(Vogue)  to World Wide Web (Gucci) to Wall Street to "street culture" to
name only a few iconic instances of style and the costume arena. In
being so, apparel remains to be analyzed either on its own as an aspect
of design and aesthetics  through its formalism and historicity, or
sociologically in relation to the "high/low" polarities of the past or
present, from such perspectives as "class," "ethnicity" or "gender,"
often unfolding paradoxical cultural  phenomena. Proposals that attempt
to either historicize or critically examine  aspects of fashion within
specific or broader contexts are equally welcome. Please send a one-page
proposal, CV & audio-visual needs to:
Raphy  Sarkissian
School of Visual Arts
Art History
209 East 23  Street
New  York, NY 10010
USA

SarkissianR at aol.com

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