Fashion and Art History, Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium
Sophie Littlewood
Keynote Speakers
- Susan Vincent (University of York)
Ogling and Quizzing: or, The Historian, the Eyeglass, and the Visual Sources - Rhian Addison (Watts Gallery)
Liberating Fashion: Artists as Designers in the Aesthetic Movement
Fashion and art often follow a shared trajectory of social, political, and historical circumstances. In collaboration with the University of York, the AAH’s Annual Student Summer Symposium will explore the relationship between fashion and art through papers that engage with this subject across a wide range of chronological and theoretical perspectives.
The influence of fashionable dress on artists and patrons of art has recently become a popular and productive avenue for research in art history, while fashion designers have likewise been shown to engage continuously with historical and fine art as sources of inspiration. Fashion and Art History will build upon these conversations while also addressing questions that continue to be debated in art and fashion history circles: What evidence does art provide for how dress operates within society? Is fashion ‘art’? Should fashion history be taught alongside art history in academic curricula? When should these objects be displayed in galleries alongside each other, and how does this change the way we understand artworks and fashionable dress? Finally, how might the tools and methodologies of these related disciplines aid the study of their respective subjects?
Academic Papers
Alistair Neil Harkess (New Design University, Austria)
Body Coverings-Interior Space. Considering Clothing and Its Relation to Interior Design
Caitlyn Hoglund (Tufts University, Massachusetts)
Mondrain Madness: Fashioning Modernism in 1965
Maude Johnson (Concordia University, Montreal)
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Hannelore Magnus (University of Leuven)
A Painter Among Tailors: The Depection of Dress in the Painted Art Galleries by Jacob de Formentrou (1629-after 1695)
Maria Merseburger (Humboldt-University, Berlin)
Depicting Dress in Early Modern Florence. Ghirlandaio’s Tornabuoni Portraits
Ingrid Mida (York University, Toronto)
Fashion and Art in the Context of the Museum
Madeleine Pelling (University of York)
The Feathered Fair: Hybrid Women and Dismembered Birds in Visual Satire c.1775-1800
Anne Reimers (University for the Creative Arts)
On Aesthetic Pleasure: The Problem of 'Fashion' in 1920s German Art Journals
Amy Robson (University of Plymouth)
Dandy Dogs: Fashionable Canines and Canines as Fashion in Victorian Britain
Hazel Shepherd (University of Manchester)
Blue Corsets: 'Nana' and her Contemporaries
Sara Tarter (University of Birmingham)
Framing and Reflecting Fashion: Art in Late Nineteenth-Century Parisian Department Stores
Eugenie Maria Theuer (University of Barcelona)
The Catwalks Are Alive with the History of Cinema: Fashion's Art-Historical Approach to Films