CFP: Dress and Painting: Clothing and Textiles in Art
January 23 2024
Picture: dresshistorians.org
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Association of Dress Historians have a rather interesting call for papers out for their upcoming conference in the autumn. The event will focus on the subject of Dress and Painting: Clothing and Textiles in Art, and confirmed key note speakers already include Professor Aileen Ribeiro, Dr Timothy McCall and Anna Reynolds.
According the CFP blurb:
Papers are invited that investigate, but are not limited to, any of the following prompts:
• The value (and limitations) of painted sources for historians of dress including portraits, genre scenes, illuminated manuscripts, frescoes and miniatures
• The reality (or otherwise) of clothing portrayed in paintings through comparison with extant garments, documentary sources etc
• The practices of dressing up (e.g. fancy dress, professional robes) or dressing down (e.g. déshabillé) for portraits
• The symbolism of dress in paintings
• The role of clothing in interpretations of meaning or narrative
• Individual artists and their different approaches to depicting dress
• Artists’ involvement in decisions about what sitters should wear for portraits
• Artists’ personal attitudes to fashion and the selection of clothing worn in self-portraits
• Techniques used by artists to represent textiles and three-dimensional garments in paint
• The draped figure in painting – depictions of the clothed and unclothed body
• The role of the specialist drapery painter in artists’ studios
• Overlapping spheres of production in the raw materials for paintings and textiles e.g. pigments and dyes, linen canvas, animal hair
• Paintings as fashion illustration, and their role in the fashion design process
• Textile designs inspired by paintings
• Painters who were also fashion/textile designers
• Museum practices of exhibiting paintings alongside items of dress
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