Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Reading their portrayals of modern life with an eye to fashion and dress reveals a world of complex calculations and subtle signals. Extensively illustrated, Fashion in European Art explores the significance of historical dress over this period of upheaval, as well as the lived experience of dress and its representation. Drawing on visual sources that extend from paintings and photographs to fashion plates, caricatures and advertisements, the expert contributors consider how artists and their sitters engaged with the fashion and culture of their times. They explore the politics of dress, its inspirations and the reactions it provoked, as well as the many meanings of fashion in European art, revealing its importance in understanding modernity itself. |
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Contents
Parures Pashminas and Portraiture or | |
Temporalities of Costume and Fashion in Art of | |
Rossettis Erotics of | |
The Art and Politics of Dress after | |
Mannequin and Monkey in Seurats Grande Jatte | |
Issues of Masculine | |
Silencing Fashion in Early TwentiethCentury | |
Mens | |
Contributors | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 Dress Cultures |
| Editor | Justine De Young |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1786722240, 9781786722249 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / General Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Art / Techniques / Painting Design / Fashion & Accessories History / Europe / General History / Social History Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Customs & Traditions Social Science / Gender Studies Social Science / General |
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