Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade - Hardcover

Phyllis Galembo; Mark Alice Durant; Valerie Steele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810932911 ISBN 13: 9780810932913

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2002

Synopsis

A tour of 100 years of American Halloween attire features a wealth of images depicting revelers and trick-or-treaters in disguise and enhanced by special lighting effects, in a volume complemented by a history of the holiday and Halloween fashion.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

From a 1930s waxed, painted buckram "Evil Bunny" and a mohair and cotton "Colonial Ladies Wig" from the 1940s to "Buddie Beatnik" and "Rubik's Cube" costumes, this colorful photographic survey by Galembo, a photographer and SUNY professor of art, shows vintage costumes worn by (sometimes rather unhappy looking) young models. Mark Alice Durant, a University of Maryland professor of Visual Arts, offers the accompanying essay, "Glowing Turnips, Pointy Black Hats, & Insomniac Aliens: The Hybrid History of Halloween," showing how we "shape rituals to fit the realities of the moment." The play versions of Groucho Marx, Olive Oyl, astronauts and Lady Liberty among the 123 full-color photos illustrate that principle whimsically and sometimes scarily.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0810932911
• ISBN 13: 9780810932913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128