Modernizing Costume Design, 1820–1920 (Paperback)

Contents List of Images Acknowledgements Chapter 1 - Introduction: arguing costume design Chapter 2 - Material Truths: directors, historicism, and Shakespearean designs Chapter 3 - Frocks and Fictions: actresses, personae, and costume design Chapter 4 - Writing the Modern Body: the queerness of costume stage directions Chapter 5 - Life Imitates Art: couture, costumes, and commercialism Chapter 6 - Body as Art(ifact) or Machine: visual artists design for the Ballets Russes Chapter 7 - Postlude: designing modernism