Title

Pink Symposium: Tanya Melendez-Escalante "Mexican Rose"

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Melendez-Escalante, Tanya

Date

2018-10-19

Description

The Museum at FIT presented Pink, its twentieth academic symposium. This symposium explored the significance of the color pink in fashion, art, and culture. Pink provokes exceptionally strong feelings of both attraction and repulsion, yet it is increasingly being regarded as cool and androgynous, powerful and political. Topics included the significance of pink clothing in western and non-western cultures (including India, Africa, Mexico, and Japan), the role of pink in eighteenth-century portraiture, associations of pink with politics, gender, and sexuality, and the use of pink in cinema.

Tanya Melendez-Escalante is senior curator of education and public programs of MFIT. She has organized more than 90 programs for a diversity of audiences. A Fulbright scholar from 2002 to 2004, she is a contributing author to the books La comedia y el melodrama en el audiovisual iberoamericano contemporáneo and Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

Pink

Color

Psychology

Fashion

Clothing and dress

Kahlo, Frida

Interior decoration

Color in interior decoration

Color in architecture

Art, Mexican

Color in clothing

Mexico

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000817