Department of Art History and Film Studies
The University of Sydney
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Dr Michael Carter

  BA Dip Ed London
MA Birmingham
PhD Leeds
 
  Phone 9351 4208
  FAX 9351 4212
  Location Room 305
R C Mills Building
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Research Interests

 
  • The study of costume and the history of European ideas of dress and clothing in general
  • The aesthetics of daily life in particular food, costume and vernacular design
  • Theory of ornament, decoration and style.

Publications

 
  • [Book] 1997 Putting A Face on Things: Studies in Imaginary Materials, Power Publications, Sydney.
  • [Chapter] 2000 'Fishy Arrangements: A Short Digression on Aesthetics' and 'Notes on Imagination, Fantasy and the Imaginary'
  • in Imaginary Materials: A Seminar with Michael Carter. ed. John Macarthur, IMA Publishing, Brisbane, 2000.
  • [Chapter] 1999 'Perspective, Oil Painting and the Ends of the World', in Seriously Weird: Papers on the Grotesque, New York, 1999.
  • [Articles] 2000 'Superman's Costume' in Form/Work, No. 4. Sydney.
  • [Articles] 1998 'Facials: The Aesthetics of Cosmetics and Makeup' in Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. 8, October.
  • [Catalogue Essay] 1997 'Where Did Ornament Go?', in Ornamentalism, ed. Andrew McNamara, IMA, Brisbane.
  • [Book Review] 2000 Review of Dressing Up Debutantes, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 11:1

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