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Reading Fashion in Art (Paperback)
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Reading Fashion in Art (Paperback)
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Shortlisted for the CSA Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2021
Dress and fashion are central to our understanding of art. From the
stylization of the body to subtle textile embellishments and richly
symbolic colors, dress tells a story and provides clues as to the
cultural beliefs of the time in which artworks were produced. This
concise and accessible book provides a step-by-step guide to
analysing dress in art, including paintings, photographs, drawings
and art installations. The first section of the book includes an
introduction to visual analysis and explains how to 'read' fashion
and dress in an artwork using the checklists. The second section
offers case studies which demonstrate how artworks can be analysed
from the point of view of key themes including status and identity,
modernity, ideals of beauty, gender, race, globalization and
politics. The book includes iconic as well as lesser known works of
art, including work by Elisabeth Vigee le Brun, Thomas
Gainsborough, James Jacques Tissot, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray,
Yinka Shonibare, Mickalene Thomas, Kent Monkman and many others.
Reading Fashion in Art is the perfect text for students of fashion
coming to art history for the first time as well as art history
students studying dress in art and will be an essential handbook
for any gallery visitor. The step-by-step methodology helps the
reader learn to look at any work of art that includes the dressed
or undressed body and confidently develop a critical analysis of
what they see.
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