Mardi Gras Treasures: Costume Designs of the Golden Age
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565547241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Golden Age costume design was a tremendous spectacle of whimsy, mythology, and satire. Costumes included an extraordinary array of creatures: demons, fairies, magicians, animals and vegetables real and imagined, and a host of others.
"Savor the "Real" New Orleans Carnival" according to Patience. If you wish to view the real New Orleans carnival celebration, take a look through this window opened by its legendary artist/historian, Henri Schindler. Schindler is a local icon, the touchstone of this unique cultural expression. Students of cultural and social history as well as art lovers and designers will share delight in Schindler's masterful recreation, through well-researched . How Mardi Gras is NOT about nudity A Customer This book is exquisite. In New Orleans, Mardi Gras as practiced by the faithfull is the high holy event of the year. Mr. Schindler has documented the aesthetic traditions of the rites in a series of beautiful books- this is the lastest and focuses on costume designs from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The plates are all original drawings by the great designers of Carniva. Totally delicious Henri Schindler's book oMardi Gras costumes has some wonderful and challenging images--people turning into fish and other sea creatures, glorious designs to revive the Egyptians and elegant confections reflecting popular ideas about the mysterious East. As always--great and numerous illustrations, intelligent and highly readable commentary, and page after page that offers inspiration.
Following Mardi Gras Treasures: Invitations of the Golden Age and Mardi Gras Treasures: Float Designs of the Golden Age, Schindler continues his study of Carnival art by offering almost three hundred water-color costume plates, a dazzling panorama in which the amazing work of seven major designers is rediscovered. From the city's early celebrations as a Creole colony to the glimmering pageantry of the Golden Age, costumes remained essential to the New Orleans Carnival. . Mardi Gras was then a fantas
. He is highly regarded among Carnival historians for his knowledge of the festival's rich cultural legacy, and of its forgotten artists and builders. Henri Schindler, a New Orleans native, is the acclaimed designer of Mardi Gras parades and balls for some of the city's most eminent societies