Carol Bier, Book Review - Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity, ed. Thelma K. Thomas (2016) (original) (raw)

Edited by textile historian Thelma K. Thomas, Associate Professor at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, this beautifully illustrated book advances scholarship on textiles of Late Antiquity with interpretive essays by curators, conservators, and historians. As a scholarly contribution offering a critical reappraisal of clothing and furnishings of the Late Antique world, it complements an exhibition of the same title held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in 2016. Edited by Thelma K. Thomas, with contributions by Jennifer L. Ball, Edward Bleiberg, Kathrin Colburn, Helen C. Evans, Christine Kondoleon, Brandie Ratliff, Thelma K. Thomas, Elizabeth D. Williams. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, 2016. 152 p. ISBN: 978-0691169422