Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV - Interpreting the Art of Elegance (Hardcover)

Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories. Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically. Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century. With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images available in print.

General

Imprint:	Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Costume Society of America: Studying and Shaping World Dress
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	September 2014
Editors:	Kathryn Norberg • Sandra Rosenbaum
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-89672-857-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Prints & printmaking > General
LSN:	0-89672-857-9
Barcode:	9780896728578

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