Dr Michael Carter

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] 2006 Michael Carter and Adam Geczy, ReFraming Art, UNSW Press.
• [Book] 2003 Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes, Berg.
• [Book] 1997 Putting A Face on Things: Studies in Imaginary Materials, Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Edition] 2006 Roland Barthes, The Language of Fashion, edited by Andy Stafford and Michael Carter, Berg.
• [Chapter] 2009 'Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus' in The Men's Fashion Reader, ed. By Peter McNeil and Vicke Karaminas, Berg.
• [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] 2003 ‘J.C. Flugel and the Nude Future’ in Fashion Theory, vol.7, no.1
• [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] 2005 Review of Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster, MIT Press, in Art Monthly, October, 2005
• [Book Review] 2000 Review of Dressing Up Debutantes, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 11:1
• Entries for the Encyclopaedia of Clothing and Fashion, Charles Scribner’s sons. ‘Veblen’, ‘J.C. Flugel’ and ‘James Laver’.