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Benjamin on Fashion (Paperback)
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Benjamin on Fashion (Paperback)
Series: Walter Benjamin Studies
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Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin's
complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion theory that he
developed in the Arcades Project (1927-1940) and beyond, while
situating it within the environment from which it emerged - 1930s
Parisian couture. In this insightful new book, Philipp Ekardt
brings Benjamin into discussion with a number of important, but
frequently overlooked sources. Amongst many others, these include
the German fashion critic Helen Grund, who introduced him to the
contemporary fashion scene; Georg Simmel's fashion sociology; Henri
Focillon's morphological art history; designs by Elsa Schiaparelli
and Madeleine Vionnet; films by L'Herbier and others starring Mae
West; and the photography of George Hoyningen-Huene and Man Ray. In
doing so, Ekardt demonstrates how fashion and silhouettes became
grounded in sex; how an ideal of the elegant animation of matter
was pitted against the concept of an obdurate fashion form; and how
Benjamin's idea of 'fashion's tiger's leap into the past'
paralleled the return of 1930s couture to the depths of (fashion)
history. The use of such relevant sources makes this crucial for
understanding Benjamin both as a thinker and a cultural theorist.
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