Mardi Gras Treasures: Costume Designs of the Golden Age [Hardcover]

Henri Schindler (Author)

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Series: Mardi Gras Treasures | Publication Date: September 30, 2002

Golden Age costume design was a tremendous spectacle of whimsy, mythology, and satire. Costumes included an extraordinary array of creatures: demons, fairies, magicians, animals and vegetables real and imagined, and a host of others.

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About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing (September 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565547241
• ISBN-13: 978-1565547247
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Textiles & Costume

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME FOR DESIGNING COSTUMES, August 7, 2006

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wilsonmom2001 "MOTHER OF 2 KIDS" (LA, USA) - See all my reviews

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I DESIGN MARDI GRAS COSTUMES. THIS BOOK HAS BEEN EVERY USEFUL FOR IDEAS

5.0 out of 5 stars Savor the "Real" New Orleans Carnival, April 11, 2003

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Patience (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mardi Gras Treasures: Costume Designs of the Golden Age (Hardcover)

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, through well-researched and entertaining text and beautiful color plates, of the "golden age" of the celebration--an oeuvre to which Schindler adds annually through his own designs for several of the old-line carnival organizations, thus keeping alive the artistic and cultural tradition of which he writes in this and his previous books. The reader comes to know, through the insights of a true "insider", the meaning and spirit of the "real" Carnival.

5.0 out of 5 stars How Mardi Gras is NOT about nudity..., December 29, 2002

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This review is from: Mardi Gras Treasures: Costume Designs of the Golden Age (Hardcover)

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 great designers of Carnivals' past (Mr. Schindler is the great designer of Carnivals present). New Orleans Mardi Gras is rooted in the aesthetic of 19th century Italian opera and this book has some truly surreal illustrations. Any Carnival faithfull, opera fan, theatre designer or just folks who love costume parties should love this book. It also stands as a serious work of art history- the talent and effort that go into mounting parades and tableaux balls in New Orleans get overlooked and all of Mr. Schindlers books on the subject document a rich history of artists and artisans who worked in the city and built its most revered tradition.