Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Fashion Theory Programme - Academic Year 2019/2020

Adjunct Professor: Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo

Credits: 6

Language: English

Course schedule from October 10 2019 to January 10 2020

Office hours: Thursday 15.00-16.00 (Fashion Studies MA Room, I floor)

Course Title:

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

Exhibiting two artists and icons of style in conspiracy with fashion

Course description:

The course proposes the study of the exhibitions Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (Brooklyn Museum, New York 2017) and Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (Victoria& Albert Museum, London 2018), revolving around the biographies of these two iconic artists viewed through the lens of a seamless integration of art and life. It analyses curatorial narratives capable of relating paintings, clothes, photos, accessories and personal belongings, with the intention of producing a meaning that is tightly connected to the creative construction of Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Frida Kahlo’s persona. The course aims to detect the principle of consonance that underlies both exhibitions, not only opening up to renewed conversations emerging from such a practice that brings together art and fashion, but also triggering theoretical research and debate about the notion of style and conventions of seeing that had an impact on both artists throughout the decades characterized by Modernism’s aesthetic forms and practices, as well as through the lens of ‘modernism’ as an attitude to modernity.

Readings:

Selected chapters from: Corn, Wanda M. 2016. Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, Munich, London, New York: Brooklyn Museum, Delmonico Prestel.

Driscoll, Catherine. 2010. “Chanel: The Order of Things”, Fashion Theory, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 135-158.

Geczy, Adam and Karaminas, Vicki. 2012. Fashion and Art, London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-25.

Selected chapters from: Wilcox, Claire and Henestrosa, Circe. 2018. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, London: V&A Publishing.

Exam Sessions

Fashion Studies MA Room, I floor, h. 9.00 a.m.

Winter Term Ex. 2020,

Monday, January 27, h. 9.00 a.m.

Monday, February 10, h. 9.00 a.m.

Thursday, February 20, h. 9.00 a.m.
 

Summer Term Ex. 2020,

Thursday, June 11, h. 9.00a.m.

Tuesday, June 30, h. 9.00 a.m.

Thursday, July 16, h. 9.00 a.m.

Autumn Term Ex. 2020

Friday, September 11, h.9.00 a.m.

Tuesday, September 22, h. 9.00 a.m.
 
Extraordinary Term Ex. 2020

April …
Thursday, November 19, h. 9.00 a.m.

Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo teaches Fashion Theory within the Master Program in Fashion Studies at “Sapienza” University of Rome. She is a member of the scientific board of Culture Fashion Communication, International Research Group, and of the Advisory Board of ZoneModa Journal, Department for Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus. She has extensively written on Italian fashion and her current research topics include exoticisms, fashion curating, national identity and globalization.

Among her recent publications are: “Monica Bolzoni’s Bianca e Blu. A Maieutic Approach to Style”, in Bianca e Blu Monica Bolzoni, Davide Fornari ed., Ecal /Rizzoli: Losanna, New York, Milano: 2019; “Il Mappamodello di Nanni Strada: “unire mondi differenti nelle fasi del progetto”, in Dobras, Vol. 11, N. 24, 2018; Irene Brin, Gaspero del Corso e la Galleria L’Obelisco, V. C. Caratozzolo, I. Schiaffini, C. Zambianchi eds., Drago: Roma 2018; “Utopie vestimentarie del Design Radicale”, “Nanni Strada”, “Bianca e Blu– Tubino Brigitte”, in M. L. Frisa, G. Monti, S. Tonchi (eds.), Italiana. L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971-2001, Venezia: Marsilio, 2018;“L’animalier nella moda degli anni Sessanta. Risvolti di uno stile”, in Simona Segre Reinach (ed.), Jungle. L’immaginario animale nella Moda, Roma: Drago, 2017; Adriana Berselli. L’avventura del costume. Cinema, teatro, televisione, moda, design, Dublin: Artdigiland, 2016; “Fashion is Spinach di Elizabeth Hawes. Manifesto di indipendenza sartoriale”, in <<Letterature d’America>> (n. 154, 2015); “Irene Brin”, “Concise Dictionary of Italian High Fashion” in M. L. Frisa, A. Mattirolo, S. Tonchi (eds.), BELLISSIMA. L'Italia dell'Alta Moda 1945-1968, Milano: Electa, 2014; “Reorienting Fashion: Italy’s Wayfinding after World War II” in Sonnet Stanfill (ed.), The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014; “Visibly Fashionable: The Changing Role of Clothes in the Everyday Life of Italian American Immigrant Women”, in Simone Cinotto (ed.), Making Italian America. Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.