IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 321: Fashion and Furnishings
Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashions |
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Organiser: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
Moderator/Chair: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
Paper 321-a | The Virtue of Fashion: Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in 14th- and 15th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History |
Paper 321-b | Turkish Carpets and their Travels to England (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History |
Abstract | The first paper considers the treatment of dress and/or fashion in idealised or symbolic contexts of text and illustrations of text. The third considers the relationship of furnishing textiles to architectural space. Two of the papers have in common the treatment of vice and virtue in fashion. |