18th century lecture

[jenthompson]

OMG... I'm swooning with excitement today. I've been chatting with the lady who is going to do our 18th c. fashion lecture this May for the costume guild, and it is better than I even imagined. She is an art history professor at UT Austin, and part of her talk will show us examples of Anglo-American 18th c. portraiture and discuss the fantasy vs. reality or what they are wearing in the artwork. (my art-nerd-self is totally *SQUEEING* over that one!!!) The other half of the presentation will include a strip-tease where she shows us all the layers of an 18th c. costume that she will be wearing that day, including discussion about what parts are authenic and what parts are more theatrical, and what she learned along the way as she assembled her first outfit from this period. She will also bring a second outfit that is a more historically accurate "daily-wear" gown to show as comparison.

I'm am SO frickin' excited about this class. I'll try to get the advertising banners and fliers made up for it this week. I hope a lot of you can come to this one - it's going to be a really top-notch class!

Comments

[butterballbunny.livejournal.com]

I'm so greeneyed. Live webcast streaming? ;)
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[undycat.livejournal.com]

aw, man! I want to go! Do you think she'd come up to MN and do the talk for our fledgling guild? ;)

[christylee.livejournal.com]

~crosses fingers I can go~... so much to do in May already

[guen-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Wow! That sounds Very exciting! Awesome!

[sitpadeshu.livejournal.com]

Would you be willing to share the lecture information for those of us not fortunate enough to be in your guild (or your state)?

[anabeig.livejournal.com]

Yes please!

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

A bit out of the blue: are there some contact info of this woman? I'm writing some stuff about fantasy VS reality in portraited gowns (or rather, I am preparing to write about it), and it would be interesting to hear different art historian's approach to the matter.

The lecture sounds really, really, really interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[twe.livejournal.com]

Oooh! (And darn, I'm so far away.)

[ffloy7880.livejournal.com]

Wow!