Dr Michael Carter

Research Interests

• The study of costume and the history of European ideas of dress and clothing in general
• The aesthetics of daily life in particular food, costume and vernacular design
• Theory of ornament, decoration and style

Publications

• 2012 'Stuff and Nonsense: The Limits of the Linguistic Model of Clothing' in Fashion Theory, Volume 16, Number 3, 2012
• 2010 ‘Fashion and Adornment’ in The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, eds. P. McNeil and Giorgio Riello, Berg, Oxford.
• 2010 ‘J.C. Flugel’, James Laver’, and ‘Thorstein Veblen’.
  All entries in The Berg Companion to Fashion, ed. Valerie Steele, Berg, Oxford.
• 2009 ‘Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus’. In The Men’s Fashion Reader, eds. Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas, Berg, Oxford.
• 2006 Michael Carter and Adam Geczy, Re-Framing Art, UNSW Press, Sydney.
• 2006 Roland Barthes, The Language of Fashion, Power Publications and Berg. Eds. Andy Stafford and Michael Carter.
• 2005 Review of Prosthetic Gods, Hal Foster, MIT Press in Art Monthly, October, 2005.
• 2003 Fashion Classics From Carlyle to Barthes, Berg, Oxford.
• 2000 ‘Superman’s Costume’ in Form/Work, University of Technology, Sydney.
• 2000 Imaginary Materials: A Seminar with Michael Carter, ed. John Macarthur, IMA Publishing, Brisbane.