Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources

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Peter McNeil
Berg Publishers, Feb 1, 2009 - Design - 1632 pages

Winner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zeland prize for Best Edited Book, 2010.

Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume work of reference which brings together seminal writings on Fashion. The geographical range of the essays crosses Europe, Asia and North America.

The essays reveal the wide set of methodological approaches which all bear on the study of Fashion - Sociology, Art History and Cultural History, Anthropology, Social Theory, Dress and Textile Studies. Ordered chronologically, the four volumes cover Late Medieval to Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century, the Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century to today.

Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes. Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources will prove a major scholarly resource for any researchers involved in the study of Fashion, Dress and Costume.

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Contents

Adolf Loos and the English Dandy
3
The Treatises of Dandyism
19
The Invisible Flâneur
56
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2009)

Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. He is a co-editor with G. Riello of Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (Berg, 2006).

Bibliographic information

TitleFashion: Critical and Primary Sources
Critical and Primary Sources
EditorPeter McNeil
PublisherBerg Publishers, 2009
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedAug 18, 2009
ISBN1847882927, 9781847882929
Length1632 pages
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Design / Fashion & Accessories
  
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