Fashioning Professionals

Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries
Herausgeber: Armstrong, Leah; McDowell, Felice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, 'creative' professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and industry. Fashioning Professionals addresses what it means to be a creative professional, historically and in the digital age, as new ways of working and doing business have given rise to new professional identities. Bringing together critical reflections from international researchers, the book spans fashion, design, art, architecture, and advertising. It examines both traditional and emergent roles in creative industries, from advertising executives and surrealist artists to mannequin designers, pop stylists, bloggers, makers and design curators. The book reveals how professional identities are continually in a state of fashioning, through style, taste, gender and cultural representation, highlighting moments of friction and flux in the creative labour of the global economy. Interweaving critical perspectives from fashion and design history with sociology and cultural theory, Fashioning Professionals addresses a burgeoning area of research as we enter new terrain in fashion and the creative industries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781350001848
• ISBN-10: 1350001848
• Artikelnr.: 47617188

Autorenporträt

Felice McDowell is Associate Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK. Leah Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in Design History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fashioning Professionals: History, Theory and Method Leah
Armstrong and Felice McDowell I. Inventing 1. Media in the Museum:
Fashioning the Design Curator at the Boilerhouse Gallery, Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, Liz Farrelly 2. Fashioning Pop: Stylists, Fashion
Work and Popular Music Imagery, Rachel Lifter 3. The Labor of Fashion
Blogging, Agnès Rocamora II. Negotiating 4. Fashioning Professional
Identity in the British Advertising Industry: The Women's Advertising Club
of London, 1923-1939: 95-114, Philippa Haughton 5. Satirical
Representations of the Bauhaus Architect in Simplicissimus Magazine:
115-133, Isabel Rousset 6. The Self as an Art-Work: Performative
Self-Representation in the Life and Work of Leonor Fini: 134-155, Andrea
Kollnitz III. Making 7. Designer Unknown: Documenting the Mannequin Maker,
June Rowe 8. Fashioning the Contemporary Artist: The Spatial Biography of
Sue Tompkins, Caroline Stevenson 9. The Maker 2.0: A Craft-Based Approach
to Understanding a New Creative Identity, Catharine Rossi Index