{"product_id":"the-concise-dictionary-of-dress-by-judith-clark-adam-phillips-hardcover","title":"The Concise Dictionary of Dress: By Judith Clark \u0026 Adam Phillips - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNorbert Schoerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn inventive recasting of dress in terms of anxiety and desire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant amalgam of psychoanalysis, literature, art and couture, \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Dictionary of Dress\u003c\/i\u003e is bestselling author and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and fashion curator Judith Clark's inventive recasting of dress in terms of anxiety and desire. The book is structured as a dictionary, but an unusual one: Each entry--for words including \"armor,\" \"brash,\" \"comfortable,\" \"conformist,\" \"diaphanous,\" \"essential,\" \"fashionable,\" \"loose,\" \"measured,\" \"plain,\" \"provocative,\" \"revealing,\" \"sharp,\" \"tight\" and so on--is elucidated by a litany of highly unconventional definitions. \"Loose,\" for example, is defined as \"1. Never knowingly over-attached; a disappearing act. 2. A moveable feast; not conforming to contour or arrangement; subject to influence and gravity; seeking direction. 3. Of uncertain boundary.\" Phillips' entries in \u003ci\u003eThe Concise Dictionary of Dress\u003c\/i\u003e are paired with photographs of installations that Clark created among the rolling racks, rambling corridors and high-security vaults of the Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum's vast reserve collections at Blythe House in west London. Cast objects and photographs, tableaux of clothing and accessories and metaphors of repression and ceremony continue the conversation. Phillips said that viewing the works at Blythe House is \"like looking up a word in a dictionary and finding a picture instead of more words; it is not clear whether the word and its definition are the caption, or vice versa.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Clark \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in the field of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion, where she is Director (with Amy de la Haye) of M.A. Fashion Curation. Clark opened the first independent gallery of dress (Judith Clark Costume Gallery) in 1998, and has since curated major exhibitions at the Victoria \u0026amp; Albert Museum in London, ModeMuseum in Antwerp, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePsychoanalyst and writer \u003cb\u003eAdam Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of 14 acclaimed books, most recently \u003ci\u003eSide Effects\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Kindness \u003c\/i\u003e(written with the historian Barbara Taylor). He is the editor of the New Penguin Freud translations, and a regular reviewer for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorbert Schoener \u003c\/b\u003eis a German photographer and filmmaker, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e. He has exhibited at White Cube, Comme des Garçons and Chapman Fine Arts.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9.82 x 7.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 31, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770043072800,"sku":"9781900828352","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c07c32090143e5aeba65fb199a56852.webp?v=1780363100","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-concise-dictionary-of-dress-by-judith-clark-adam-phillips-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}