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Methodological Approaches to Aesthetic Research on Dress - Focused on a Model for Dress Criticism -  

Lee, Yhe-Young (Dept. of Home Economics Education, Korea Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association / v.44, no.11, 2006 , pp. 35-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
A criticism model for dress was developed to offer a methodological insight into research on aesthetics of dress. Concepts from Edmund B. Feldman's art criticism model, James D. Carney's style-relative model of art criticism, and Sung Bok Kim's fashion criticism model were borrowed and integrated to create a criticism model for dress, comprising identification of styles, descriptive features, aesthetic value features, external interpretation, socio-cultural interpretation, and evaluation. Both inductive and deductive approaches for the identification of styles can be made in the process of dress criticism. In the former case, descriptive features and aesthetic features are sequentially identified to locate the styles of dress. In the latter case, styles are identified first, and descriptive features and aesthetic features are identified accordingly. Logical criticisms can be made based on the critics' background knowledge of the history of dress and art.
Keywords
aesthetics; dress; criticism;
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