From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11259 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, May 3 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11259 Today's Subjects: ----------------- How to Build ANY Shed in A Weekend or less! ["Green Houses" Subject: How to Build ANY Shed in A Weekend or less! How to Build ANY Shed in A Weekend or less! http://brainc13.shop/277nWOIskCH8FHD3IVJ6yiTsLgJx4OocOYJW_1mWLKe-GnE http://brainc13.shop/IZcf3pZ61ke3urPbXGdD-m-UThqzP12vNAtcwNyf5E9JXUDM_g McQueen's work was highly autobiographical: he incorporated elements of his memories, feelings, and personal fixations into his designs and runway shows. Widows, with its emotional focus on both McQueen's and Scotland's history, is generally regarded as one of his most autobiographical collections. Deborah Bell, a professor of costume design, cited curator Andrew Bolton in noting that the "romantic version of historic narrative" from Highland Rape and Widows was "profoundly autobiographical" for McQueen, and suggests this is the reason that it was so impactful. Fashion theorists Paul Jobling, Philippa Nesbitt, and Angelene Wong called the collection "a personal reckoning with own past", particularly his relationships with his mother, sister, and Isabella Blow. Women's Wear Daily noted that "the clothes seemed perfectly to describe McQueen's own eccentric point of view". Historical references are a major component of The Widows of Culloden, resulting in critical discussion over whether the collection is modernist or historicist. Cultural theorist Monika Seidl discussed Widows as a collection in the vein of Romanticism, a 19th century movement which emphasised emotion and glorification of the past. She cites it as an example of fashion that "self-confidently plays around with time when fragments from the past are blatantly and visibly reactivated as the new look of the moment". Cathy Horyn of The New York Times argues that McQueen was "a storyteller", which positioned him as anti-modernist. She criticised the historical elements in Widows as an unnecessary obstacle between McQueen and his designs. Historian Jack Gann argued that, in effect, it was bo ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11259 ***********************************************