The anatomy of fashion : dressing the body from the Renaissance to today / Susan J. Vincent.
Taking different body parts in turn, this book 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, it both explores a different aesthetic and examines its implications. Whether in the mechanisms of pr...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2009.
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| Edition: | English edition. |
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| Online Access: | Berg Fashion Library |
| Summary: | Taking different body parts in turn, this book 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, it both explores a different aesthetic and examines its implications. 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.--[back cover]. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847888615 9781847888617 |
| DOI: | 10.2752/9781847888617 |