Art Theory : BVA 313 - 02/04/2019 (Practitioner Research)

Practitioner Research 

Outline own practice research questioning.
Identify and analyze specific and practices to own question.
Overview aspect within artwork/ practices that is relevant to theoretical components of own questioning.
Identify and discuss the cultural significance of production, reception, authorship, and technology within artwork/ practices relevant to own questioning.
Briefly discuss how this research may inform own studio research eg methods, intended approaches and discuss the relationship with key theoretical text contexts.
APA references.

The relationship between the body and fashion
Question: Will the clothing of Cinderellas from two different situations reflects nowadays society on personal appearance?

My question came from my final year project titled: The Cinderellas. The Cinderellas talks about the acceptance of cultural diversity in nowadays society while in this theory paper, I will be narrowing this aspect and looking into the clothing worn by each Cinderella. How society status is depicted through fashion/ clothing?

Reading

1.Journal: Fashion Myths (MEINHOLD, 2019)
The saying "Clothes make the man". An anthropological assumption of KANT is that a person likes to imitate his superiors and that fashion is a manifestation of this situation.

To be recognized by others is to gain recognition from others.

Our soul influences the outer "wrapping". How an individual represents themselves with clothing.

2. Styling the self: Fashion as an expression of cultural identity in the global world. (REDDY)
This study aims to investigate the influence of mediated globalization on these daily dress decisions by exploring how magazines, television, and cinema influence a sense of cultural identity and how this identity is then expressed through fashion or style of dress.

A connection between media and globalization.

Stated media plays a vital role in the process of globalization, effecting identity construction and fashion sense.


3.The Fabric of Cultures, (PAULICELLI& CLARK, 2009, P. 3)
Cloth and clothing are an integral part of the human experience at both the material and symbolic levels.

Michelangelo Antoniono is one of the most quoted sources that portrays his actress's personality through fashion.

The chapter "Framing the self, staging identity: Clothing and Italian style film of Michelangelo Antonio", talks shares more information about the theory and making of this film.

About Michelangelo Antonioni (FASHION IN MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI'S FILMS , 2017)

Costume in L'avventura

Costume designed by Andriana Berselli, Apparently the only outfit not completely agreed by the costume designer, who thought that the suit, chosen by Monica Vitti herself, conveyed a different and more bourgeois perception of Claudia's character. 

Costume plays well for Claudia's search for identity. 

The Director orchestra the actresses to worm symbolic representation of the main character(Anna) and her best friend (Claudia). 

(SIGNALING CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO ACTORS (ANNA AND CLAUDIA) 

Reference:

Fashion in Michelangelo Antonioni's Films . (2017, August 1). Retrieved from Classiq: http://classiq.me/fashion-in-michelangelo-antonionis-films

Featherstone, M. (1995). Undoing culture.London : Sage .

McEvilley, T. (1992). Art & Otherness .Kingston: McPherson & Company .

Meinhold, R. (2019, April 01). Philosophic-anthropological implications of fashion .Retrieved from Jstor: https://ezproxy.sit.ac.nz:3292/stable/pdf/j.ctv1xxspz.4.pdf?ab_segments=0%252Fdefault-2%252Fcontrol&refreqid=excelsior%3Aec9fc5a101068d3f3e8be33817a028a4

Morley, D., & Robins, K. (1995). Spaces of Identity .London : Routledge .

Paulicelli, E., & Clark, H. (2009). The fabric of cultures .Oxon : Routledge .

Reddy, S. (n.d.). Styling the self: Fashion as an expression of cultural identotyinaglobal world .Retrieved from http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za/files/articles/Hons_essays/sertanya%20media%20in%20gw%20paper%202.pdf