Mardi Gras Treasures: Costume Designs of the Golden Age
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565547241 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Costumes included an extraordinary array of creatures: demons, fairies, magicians, animals and vegetables real and imagined, and a host of others.. Golden Age costume design was a tremendous spectacle of whimsy, mythology, and satire
Savor the "Real" New Orleans Carnival 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, th. 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 grea. 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 tha
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. . He is highly regarded among Carnival historians for his knowledge of the festival's rich cultural legacy, and of its forgotten artists and builders
The Golden Age began with the satirical masterworks of the early 1870s, blossomed in grandeur from the 1880s until World War I, and ended with the coming of the Great Depression of the 1930s. This book, the third in a series of Mardi Gras Treasures, presents the first comprehensive survey of the wondrous costumes designed for the casts of those papier-m�ch� tableaux during the Golden Age. Henri Schindler, a Mardi Gras historian, is also the acclaimed designer of parades and balls for some of t