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Eternity in a Ruffle: Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion Lecture Series by SAL U

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, At University of Washington (15th Ave NE & NE 41st St Seattle, WA 98195)
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Seattle Arts & Lectures' SAL U presents a five-session lecture series on the history of modern fashion and the ideas it engenders and engages. From what we wear to who we are, fashion is both a means of self-expression and a way that our times mark us historically. Ranging from Leigh Bowery to Lady Gaga, with stops for Audrey Hepburn, the avant-garde, and Schiaparelli along the way, the first four sessions, taught by Jessica Burstein, will take up issues such as why artists and philosophers ranging from Oscar Wilde to Walter Benjamin have repeatedly deemed fashion so important; fashion in film, photography and literature; and examples of sartorial fashion from the Henry Art Gallery Costume collection, as well as archival instances of fashion magazines for women. The focus will be on clothing's consumption (as opposed to its production), particularly clothing for women, with a slight bias toward couture. The last class will be led by Judy Sourakli, Curator of Collections at the Henry Art Gallery, and Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in Special Collections at Suzzallo/Allen Library. Both will share and discuss objects from the Henry Art Gallery and Special Collections relevant to the course.

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The last date listed for Eternity in a Ruffle: Fashion in Art, Art in Fashion Lecture Series was Thursday January 26, 2012 / 7:00pm (Plus February 2, February 16, March 1 and March 15, 2012).

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
At University of Washington,
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195
Website
206-543-2280
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Have no idea how it is possible that a speaker could take such a fascinating topic and make it so deadly boring.
Written on Jan 29 2012

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I loved the first lecture. I find the study of Fashion absolutely delicious and spending time being spoon-fed Fashion-Philosophy was very tasty! I can hardly wait until the next lecture.
Written on Jan 27 2012

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Although I love the subject matter, I honestly found the presentation to be a bit flat - and even condescending. The speaker mostly just read her notes, and kept asking us "not to be scared" of big ideas. She spoke to us as if she was so vastly knowledgeable about things that it would be hard for us to understand her, which was fairly insulting. That said, it was enjoyable overall, and I'm hoping that as the series progresses, she'll relax a bit. Indeed, she was much more engaging during the Q & A than during the "speech" portion of her presentation.
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Jessica Burstein is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She works on modernism and the avant-garde; her book Cold Modernism (2012) engages the ways surfaces matter in literature and art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the University of Chicago Franke Center for the Humanities, she writes occasionally for The Chronicle of Higher Education, served as acting editor of Modern Language Quarterly 2010-11, has published in various academic journals, and teaches classes on fashion and modernism, boredom and wandering women. She’s intensely interested in the intellectual history of contemporary visual and writerly arts, and has worked with SAL before, interviewing Joyce Carol Oates, introducing and conducting the Q&A with Annie Leibovitz, and giving pre-talks on Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Adam Gopnik.

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