Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion’s pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an increasingly significant proportion of the working population, and entrepreneurial artisans began to transform even the most functional garments into fashionable ones. Anxieties concerning vanity and the power of clothing to mask identities heightened fears of fashion’s corrupting influence, and heralded the great age of sumptuary legislation intended to police status and gender through dress.Drawing on sources from surviving garments to artworks to moralising pamphlets, this richly illustrated volume presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:166 x 242 x 12 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Histories Series
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350204706

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

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Elizabeth Currie is a freelance lecturer and author specialising in the history of fashion and textiles. She has formerly held the positions of Assistant Curator in Fashion, Textiles and Furniture at the V&A, Research Fellow and Tutor for History of Design MA at the Royal College of Art, UK.

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List of IllustrationsIntroductionElizabeth Currie (freelance lecturer and author specialising in the history of fashion and textiles, UK)Chapter 1 – TextilesMaria Hayward (University of Southampton, UK)Chapter 2 – Production and DistributionSusan Vincent (University of York, UK)Chapter 3 – The BodyIsabelle Paresys (Université de Lille, France)Chapter 4 – Belief Cordelia Warr (University of Manchester, UK)Chapter 5 – Gender and SexualityAnn Rosalind Jones (Smith College, USA)Chapter 6 – StatusCatherine Richardson (University of Kent, UK)Chapter 7 – Ethnicity Eminegül Karababa (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)Chapter 8 – Visual RepresentationsAnna Reynolds (Deputy Surveyor of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust, UK)Chapter 9 – Literary RepresentationsGerry Milligan (City University of New York, USA)NotesBibliographyNotes on Contributors Index