This final volume in the four-volume series Habits of Being shows
how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts
is mediated through clothing and accessories. It considers how
clothing and accessories can move quickly from the ordinary to the
extravagant. Employing many different approaches, these essays
explore how wearing an object-a crown, a flower, an earring, a
corsage, a veil, even a length of material-can stray beyond the
bounds of the body on which it is placed into the discrepant
territory of flagrantly excessive public signs of love, status,
honor, prestige, power, desire, and display. The varied
contributions of scholars (historians, ethnographers, literary and
film critics) and artists (photographers, sculptors, writers,
weavers, and embroiderers) take up the threads of these forays into
history, psyche, and aesthetics in surprising and useful ways. With
examples from around the world, contributors address how the simple
action of ornamenting the body, even with something as common as a
button, are open to elaborate interpretations-which themselves
offer new understandings of human behavior and artistic endeavor.
When our "habits of being" receive close scrutiny, they seem
anything but habitual. Contributors: Mariapia Bobbiobi; Camilla
Cattarulla, U of Rome Three; Paola Colaiacomo, Sapienza, U of Rome;
Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art; Joanne B. Eicher, U of
Minnesota; Maria Giulia Fabi, U of Ferrara; Margherita di Fazio;
Adeena Karasick, Fordham U; Tarrah Krajnak, Pitzer College;
Charlotte Nekola, William Paterson U; Victoria R. Pass, Maryland
Institute College of Art; Amanda Salvioni, U of Macerata; Maria
Anita Stefanelli, U of Rome Three.
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