Merchants of Style - Art and Fashion After Warhol

Looking at Andy Warhol's legacy as maker and muse, this book offers a critical examination of the coalescence of commerce and style.

Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, looking at the interplay of artists and designers, and the role of institutions--both public and commercial--that have brought about this marriage of aesthetic industries. The book argues that one figure more than any other anticipated this moment: Andy Warhol. Beginning with an overview of art and fashion's deeply entwined histories, and then picking up where Warhol left off, Merchants of Style tells the story of art's emboldened forays into commerce and fashion's growing embrace of art. As the two industries draw closer together than ever before, this book addresses urgent questions about what this union means and what the future holds.

About the author

Natasha Degen is Professor and Chair of Art Market Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. She edited The Market (2013) and has written for the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, Artforum and Frieze. For more information visit www.natashadegen.com.

Summary

An incisive look at the accelerating convergence of art and fashion.

Product details

• Authors: Natasha Degen, Degen Natasha
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781789146691
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-669-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 250 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Fashion & society, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, History of fashion, Fashion and textile design, Cultural studies: dress and society