The Anatomy of Fashion - Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today

Zusatztext The Anatomy of Fashion is a glorious! resounding! and opulent "yes" to the untapped energy of seeing fashion as a cultural artifact of the utmost intimacy. Informationen zum Autor Susan Vincent is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York, UK. Zusammenfassung 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 particular 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, the chapters both explore a different aesthetic and examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. In countless different ways, fashion is caught up in the larger picture of its chronological moment. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender, or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is there. In its provocative conclusion The Anatomy of Fashion 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AbbreviationsPrologue: Approaching the past1. Head and neck2. Breasts and waist3. Hips and bottom4. Genitals and legs5. SkinEpilogue: Fashioning the body today

Product details

• Authors: Susan Vincent, Susan J Vincent, Susan J. Vincent, Vincent Susan J.
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9781845207632
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-763-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 244 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume, History of Art, Social and cultural history, History of fashion, Fashion and textile design, Cultural studies: dress and society