Fashion, Desire and Anxiety - Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Arnold is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. Klappentext This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating, flaunting capitalism's euphoric emblems of glamour and success but also representing the underside of modern life. In the 1970s, photographers like Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton set models against backdrops of tarnished glamour; in the 1990s Alexander McQueen and John Galliano created decadent femmes fatales whose sexual allure was equally tempting and threatening. Rebecca Arnold exlores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety that it provokes. Vorwort This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating. Rebecca Arnold exlores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety that it provokes. Zusammenfassung This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating. Rebecca Arnold exlores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety that it provokes.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Arnold, Arnold Rebecca
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2001
• EAN: 9781860645556
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-555-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Fashion & Popular Culture S.; Fashion and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, 20th Century, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fashion & society, Fashion design & theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Fashion and textile design, Industrialized / Developed Countries, Global North / Industrialized or developed countries, Cultural studies: dress and society