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The art of the character : highlights from the Glenn Close costume collection

Title
The art of the character : highlights from the Glenn Close costume collection / Kelly Gallet Richardson and Galina Olmsted ; with Heather Akou, Jennifer E. Maher, Heather Milam, and Linda Pisano.
Author
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, issuing body.
Publication
Bloomington, IN : Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University ; New York, NY : in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Richardson, Kelly Gallet
  • Olmsted, Galina K.
  • Akou, Heather Marie
  • Maher, Jennifer E.
  • Milam, Heather
  • Pisano, Linda, 1967-
Description
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
Summary
"OSCAR-nominated actor Glenn Close donated her costume collection, comprised of over 800 costumes and accessories, to The Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection-part of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture+Design at Indiana University. Costumes from the following films: Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, 101 Dalmatians, and Stepford Wives. Designers featured include Anthony Powell, Ann Roth, Ellen Mirojnick, James Acheson and Consolata Boyle. A study of the quality of these outfits and explores how Close considers costume as essential to creating her stage and screen characters"--
Alternative Title
Highlights from the Glenn Close costume collection
Subject
  • Close, Glenn, 1947- > Clothing > Catalogs
  • Close, Glenn, 1947- > Interviews
  • Close, Glenn, 1947-
  • Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art > Catalogs
  • Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection > Catalogs
  • Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection
  • Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
  • Costume > United States > Catalogs
  • Clothing and dress
  • Costume
  • United States
Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Director's foreword / Peg Faimon and David A. Brenneman -- Interview with Glenn Close / Laurie Burns McRobbie -- Bringing fantasies to life / Heather Milam -- Fashioning intra-feminine fascination / Jennifer E. Maher -- Telling history through costumes / Heather Akou -- Collaborating behind the scenes / Linda Pisano -- Catalogue / Kelly Gallett Richardson and Galina Olmsted -- Afterword: Costume design and the discovery of a character / Ann Roth -- Glenn Close Costume Collection timeline / Kelly Gallett Richardson -- Checklist / Kelly Gallett Richardson.
Call Number
PN2287.C5467
ISBN
  • 9781785513336
  • 1785513338
LCCN
2020056112
OCLC
  • 1238130906
  • on1238130906
  • SCSB-14252368
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries