Staging fashion, 1880-1920 : Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke / Michele Majer, [curator of the exhibition and] editor ; Lenard Berlanstein, Marlis Schweitzer, Sheila Stowell ; with contributions by BGC graduate students.
Published / Created:
New York : Bard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; c2012.New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition, Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke, held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, from January 17, 2012, through April 8, 2012.
Contents:
Introduction / Michele Majer -- Jane Hading. Dangerous and Influential women: actresses in nineteenth-century French culture / Lenard Berlanstein -- Jane Hading catalogue section / Michele Majer and BGC students -- Lily Elsie. Lucile and the theatricalization of fashion / Sheila Stowell -- Lily Elsie catalogue section / Michele Majer and BGC students -- Billie Burke. Stylish effervescence: Billie Burke and the rise of the fashionable Broadway star / Marlis Schweitzer -- Billie Burke catalogue section / Michele Majer and BGC students.
Subject Terms:
Costume -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. | Costume -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. | Hading, Jane, d. 1941 -- Exhibitions. | Elsie, Lily, 1886-1962 -- Exhibitions. | Burke, Billie, 1885-1970 -- Exhibitions. | Theater -- France -- History -- Exhibitions. | Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- Exhibitions. | Theater -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions. | Fashion -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. | Fashion -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Majer, Michele. | Berlanstein, Lenard R. | Schweitzer, Marlis. | Stowell, Sheila, 1954- | Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture.