Homework for the Reading by Jones & Stallbrass, “Introduction” from Renaissance Clothing: Materials of Memory

Homework for the Reading by Jones & Stallbrass, “Introduction” from Renaissance Clothing: Materials of Memory

Assignment Level:           Subject:          Art history of textile Order Topic:          Homework on Fetishism and Renaissance Clothing as Materials of Memory Instruction:

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Homework for the Reading by Jones & Stallbrass, “Introduction” from Renaissance Clothing: Materials of Memory. Answers should be short essays and full sentences. Use online form for your answers and upload completed form to Canvas by October 14th. Note the space I allow here is not related to how much space you will need to complete. A short essay means circa 4-10 sentences, depending on your writing style and sentence structure.

1) The authors discuss the complexities of the definition of fashion in the 16th century.  Describe the two understandings of the term fashion that existed at this time.

2) The authors say:  It was investiture, the putting on of clothes that quite literally constituted a person as a monarch or freeman of a guild or a household servant.  “Investiture was…the means by which a person was given a form, a shape, a social function, a depth.”

  • What do the authors mean by this? What is investiture?
  • What is one of the examples they use to discuss this idea?

3) How do you understand the idea of the “animatedness of clothes.”

4) How is livery central to this discussion about the social context of clothes?

5) How do the authors discuss the term “habit”?

Fetishism

1)What are three points that the authors make about fetishism in 15th-17th centurie

2)What is fetishism of the object?  How is fetishism related to concept of objects as commodity?

3)How do the new forms of trade and colonial conquest contribute to conflicting cultural and religious identities?  What cultural examples do Jones and Stallybrass use?

4)How was the term fetish applied to conceptions of the “other”?

5)How is this term used today?  Is there a contemporary artist (your current practice included) whose work deals with the idea of fetish?

 

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