Dr Michael Carter
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BA Dip Ed London MA Birmingham PhD Leeds |
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| Phone | 9351 4208 | |||
| FAX | 9351 4212 | |||
| Location | Room 305 R C Mills Building map |
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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.
- [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




