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Art of the Character

Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection

H. Akou, L. McRobbie, J.E. Maher, H. Milam, L. Pisano

  • Categories: Collections, Exhibitions
ISBN: 978 1 78551 333 6
Size: 280 x 240 mm
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 192
Images: 150
In association with: Eskenazi Museum of Art
Date published: July, 2021
UK £40
/ US $55

Highlights

  • Director’s Foreword – David A. Brenneman, Wilma E. Kelley Director, Eskenazi Museum of Art
  • Acknowledgments – Interview with Glenn Close, Laurie McRobbie
  • Bringing Fantasies to Life – Heather Milam, Professor of Practice, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, Indiana University
  • Portraying Gender Roles – Jennifer E. Maher, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University
  • Telling History Through Costumes – Heather Akou, Associate Professor and Director of the Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University
  • Collaborating Behind the Scenes – Linda Pisano, Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, Indiana University

Description

“What a character wears has everything to do with who that character is…

the costume is a product of an intense collaboration with the designers…”

Glenn Close

OSCAR-nominated actor Glenn Close has starred in some of most enduring movies of the last 30 years, including Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, 101 Dalmatians, and Stepford Wives. As an actor of the highest caliber, Close has worked with award-winning costume designers including Anthony Powell, Ann Roth, Ellen Mirojnick, James Acheson and Consolata Boyle.

In 2017 Close donated her 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. This beautifully designed catalogue showcases the extraordinary quality of these outfits and explores how Close considers costume as essential to creating the characters that she embodies so powerfully on stage and screen.

Author information

Heather Akou, Associate Professor and Director of the Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University

Jennifer E. Maher, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University

Laurie Burns McRobbie, First Lady, Indiana University

Heather Milam, Professor of Practice, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, Indiana University

Galina Olmsted, Assistant Curator of European and American Art, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Linda Pisano, Professor and Chair, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance, Indiana University

Kelly Gallett Richardson, Curator, The Sage Collection, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University

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