SURREALISM IN FASHION

Impressionism and Surrealism in Multiparticle Dynamics

Peter Carruthers, the scientist, was a man of remarkable mathematical and physical culture. He had also something which is less common now a days, namely a profound physical intuition which guided him to approach in an original way the most interesting problems at a given moment and in this way he became a guide also for others. Multiparticle dynamics being by definition a many-body problem, it...

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

Designing in the Context of Fashion – Designing the Fashion Context

Fashion is a collective cultural phenomenon generated by the individual but linked to actions of a very large number of garment designers aiming to create distinctive but similar clothes. This paper outlines the mental processes, behavioural strategies and working patterns through which fashion and knitwear designers actively construct the contexts – their visual environments as well as memorie...

“Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism: From Pyschic to Plastic Automatism.” In Isabelle Dervaux. Surrealism USA. New York: National Academy Museum in conjuction with Hatje

Fashion Cycles in Economics

Keywords, JEL Codes THE RAISON D'ÊTRE FOR SCIENCE, AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN particular, is to understand and explain observable phenomena. Yet, in an article in the American Economic Review, Wolfgang Pesendorfer (1995) develops a model of the design cycle of fashion goods that shows little regard for data, observational experience, history, intuition, or semantic integrity. These cornerstones o...