Anatomy of Fashion

Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today

AvSusan J. Vincent

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has used garments to shape itself in the image of its own desires.Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, Susan Vincent explores different bodily presentations and examines their wider, and often surprising, implications.In its provocative conclusion, this authoritative text turns its attention to dress practices today. Reassembling the anatomical parts, the text places the contemporary body in the historical view and reveals the strangeness that lies at the heart of our own normality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-04-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:474 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Foundations of Fashion Studies
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350564961

Utforska kategorier

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

Mer om författaren

Susan Vincent is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York, UK.

Recensioner i media

While we will never be able to answer ‘the why’ of past fashions, this scholarly yet accessible book goes a long way towards answering many questions about the lived experience of what might appear to us today as bizarre and uncomfortable forms of clothing. Towering wigs, stifling ruffs, tightly laced corsets, prominent codpieces and fire-hazard inducing crinolines all come under scrutiny through the testimony of their long-lost wearers to help us understand their normality within the contemporary context of fashion and identity.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to this re-issueList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPrologue: Approaching the Past1. Head and Neck2. Breasts and Waist3. Hips and Bottom4.Genitals and Legs5. SkinEpilogue: Fashioning the Body TodayAfterword to this re-issueFurther reading for this re-issueBibliographyIndex