Fashion in European Art - Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925

Zusatztext This is an exciting book, excellent in its scope and rigour, immaculately edited and richly imaginative. It proposes a new approach to fashion research concerning dress, art and the body. Informationen zum Autor Justine De Young is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century art and literature, visual and material culture, modernism and fashion. She has written widely on art and fashion, notably for the 2012-3 exhibition, 'Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity'. Zusammenfassung Fashion 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Addressing Fashion in Art by Justine De Young1. From the Studio to the Street: Modelling Neoclassical Dress in Art and Life by Amelia Rauser2. Parures, Pashminas, and Portraiture, or, How Joséphine Bonaparte Fashioned the Napoleonic Empire by Heather Belnap Jensen 3. Temporalities of Costume and Fashion in Art of the Romantic Period by Susan L. Siegfried 4. Desire and Dress: Rossetti’s Erotics of the Unclassifiable and Working-Class Models by Julie Codell 5. Mourning for Paris: The Art and Politics of Dress after ‘l’année terrible’ (1870-71) by Justine De Young6. Mannequin and Monkey in Seurat’s Grande Jatte (1884) by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen 7. 'But the coat is the picture’: Issues of Masculine Fashioning, Politics and Sexual Identity in Portraiture in England c. 1890-1900 by Andrew Stephenson 8. Silencing Fashion in Early Twentieth-Century Feminism: The Sartorial Story of Suffrage by Kimberly Wahl 9. Puppets, Patterns, and ‘Proper Gentlemen’: Men’s Fashion in Anton Räderscheidt’s New-Objectivity Paintings by Änne SöllNotes on the ContributorsSelected Bibliography...

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Addressing Fashion in Art by Justine De Young
1. From the Studio to the Street: Modelling Neoclassical Dress in Art and Life by Amelia Rauser
2. Parures, Pashminas, and Portraiture, or, How Joséphine Bonaparte Fashioned the Napoleonic Empire by Heather Belnap Jensen
3. Temporalities of Costume and Fashion in Art of the Romantic Period by Susan L. Siegfried
4. Desire and Dress: Rossetti's Erotics of the Unclassifiable and Working-Class Models by Julie Codell
5. Mourning for Paris: The Art and Politics of Dress after 'l'année terrible' (1870-71) by Justine De Young
6. Mannequin and Monkey in Seurat's Grande Jatte (1884) by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
7. 'But the coat is the picture': Issues of Masculine Fashioning, Politics and Sexual Identity in Portraiture in England c. 1890-1900 by Andrew Stephenson
8. Silencing Fashion in Early Twentieth-Century Feminism: The Sartorial Story of Suffrage by Kimberly Wahl
9. Puppets, Patterns, and 'Proper Gentlemen': Men's Fashion in Anton Räderscheidt's New-Objectivity Paintings by Änne Söll
Notes on the Contributors
Selected Bibliography

Report

The book is a welcome addition to any library on nineteenth century European dress. It underscores the importance of dress and how its study can enrich our understanding of art and culture. It is gratifying to see academics in many disciplines writing on the textile and fashion arts bringing their understanding, research methodologies, and perspectives to this endlessly fascinating subject. The Journal of Dress History

Product details

• Authors: Justine De Young, Justine De Young
• Assisted by: Justine De Young (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781784534622
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-462-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Dress Cultures; Dress Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design