Extreme Beauty - The Body Transformed

Klappentext Over time and across cultures! shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict! enhance! minimize! or exaggerate various zones of the human body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices! from the bound feet of aristocratic Manchu women to the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress. Zusammenfassung Over time and across cultures extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred. This volume features photographs! paintings! prints and drawings showing how fashion has constricted! padded! truncated and extended the body.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Harold Koda
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.11.2001
• EAN: 9780300103120
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10312-0
• Pagine: 168
• Dimensioni: 242 mm x 306 mm x 18 mm