Fashion and Art

Adam Geczy is an artist and writer. He is Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, and author of several books including (with Michael Carter) Reframing Art (Berg, 2005) and Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions (Berg, 2008), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009.Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is the Executive Director and Chair of Fashion for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand and the Chair for Subcultural Style and Identity for the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. She is the editor of The Men's Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009), Fashion in Fiction (Berg, 2009) and The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

• Introduction: Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas1. Fashion: Valerie Steele, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA2. Art: Nancy Troy, Stanford University, USA3. Aesthetics: Llewellyn Negrin, University of Tasmania, Australia4. Modernity: Adam Geczy, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia5. Conceptual: Hazel Clark, Parsons the New School of Design, USA6. Body: Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota, USA7. Beauty: Morag Martin, State University of New York, USA8. Boundaries: Diana Crane, University of Pennsylvania, USA9. Authenticity: Efrat Tseëlon, Leeds University, UK10. Performance: Herbert Blau, University of Washington, USA11. Dressing up: Mary Gluck, Brown University, USA12. Clothing: Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland, Australia13. Patronage: Nicky Ryan, University of the Arts, London, UK14. Painting: Aileen Ribeiro, University of London, UK15. Image: Vicki Karaminas, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia16. Exhibition: Alistair O'Neil, Central St Martins, London, UK17. Curatorial: Barbara Heinemann, Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota, USABibliographyIndex

Finally a book on the complex relationship between art and fashion adopts a different approach. Instead of the usual attempts to decide where the boundary lines might be drawn , this anthology examines the areas where art and fashion meet. These essays are not only vital for scholars and students within both disciplines - for anyone and everyone, this is a highly enjoyable book.