[csaa-forum] New book-Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity

[Llewellyn Negrin]

Dear colleagues,
My book-Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in 
Postmodernity- has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan U.S.A. 
and will be available in Australia in February, 2009. Below is a 
brief description of the book.

This book critically examines recent theories of fashion which have 
sought to legitimize its pleasures and defend it as an avenue for 
self-expression. Through a series of essays which address different 
aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including the wearing of 
makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, the role of ornament in dress and 
the blurring of gender boundaries, it is argued that the greatest 
concern today lies not in the failure to acknowledge the pleasures of 
fashion, but, on the contrary, in the tendency to elevate it to a 
dominant position in everyday life where the cultivation of one's 
physical appearance supplants all other sources of identity formation.


Introduction* Appearance and Identity*Feminism and Fashion*Cosmetics 
and the Female Body*Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse of Identity*Body 
Art and Men's Fashion*Ornament and the Feminine*The Postmodern Gender 
Carnival

208 pp. / 0-230-60762-4 / $69.95 cl.

Copies can be ordered from 
http://us.macmillan.com/appearanceandidentity . It is also currently 
available through various online booksellers such as Amazon.

Hope this book will be of interest to you.

Regards,
Llewellyn

Dr. Llewellyn Negrin
Head of Art and Design Theory,
School of Art,
University of Tasmania,
Private bag 57,
Hobart, 7001,
Tasmania


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