Fashion, Modernity, and Materiality in France: From Rousseau to Art Deco - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 143847234X ISBN 13 : 9781438472348

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

This anthology explores connections between dress and modernity through interdisciplinary French humanities scholarship. It brings to life the reciprocal relationships between fashion and a range of primary source materials, including literary fiction, paintings, social commentaries, decorative arts, fashion magazines, mass-circulating newspapers, popular theatrical works, trade publications, and advertisements, among others. The book centers on a specific constellation of concerns-fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries-giving depth of focus. Themes include fashion's relationship to the arts, material production, conflict, memory, the nation, social class, race, and gender and sexuality. Among the broader questions framing the volume are some that remain highly pertinent today: What are the various and complex relationships that exist between clothing and the lived body? How do garments hold traces of the past and activate memories of the human experience? In which ways do clothing and adornment express sexualities? How does fashion help to define what it meant and means to be modern? Together, the essays demonstrate fashion's broad reach and appeal as an interdisciplinary category of analysis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Heidi Brevik-Zender is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside and the author of Fashioning Spaces: Mode and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 143847234X
• ISBN 13: 9781438472348
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Brevik-Zender Heidi
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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