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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
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-aThe Virtue of Fashion: Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in 14th- and 15th-Century England
(Language: English)
Valija Evalds, Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History
Paper 321-bTurkish Carpets and their Travels to England
(Language: English)
Anne Reaves, Department of English & Communication, Marian University, Indianapolis
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.