The great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn might be considered excessively vain, for he painted 62 pictures of his own face.* Emanuele, Count Castelbarco Albani, Italian painter whose first ...

Introduction: Seeing dress in art -- Part I. Portraying dress. Introduction ; Artists' fashions ; In the studio -- Part II. Identifying the nation. Introduction ; Going Dutch in the seventeenth ...

Fashion loves art, and designers love to pay tribute to artists—Yves Saint Laurent put Piet Mondrian on his graphic mini, Miu Miu collaborated with John Wesley, Dior's Kim Jones has worked with Peter ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

The hazards of new clothes : what signs make possible / Webb Keane -- Dressing for transition : weddings, clothing and change in Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton -- Objects of conversion : concerning the ...

Yin Xiuzhen builds cities from donated clothing while Chiharu Shiota weaves found objects into vast webs of thread. Now the two are exhibiting their massive, moving installations in two parallel ...