Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
“A” Collection Of The Dresses Of Different Nations, Ancient and Modern. Particulary Old English Dresses After The Designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and Others
Author: Thomas JefferysA Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Particularly Old English Dresses [Engelsch-Fransch
Author: A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, Particularly Old English Dresses
Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations
Author: A collection of the dresses of different nations, ancient and modern particularly old english dresses...
Author: A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern
Author: Thomas JefferysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Curiosity
Author: Barbara M. BenedictPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226042640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.
Masquerade and Civilization
Author: Terry CastlePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804714686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
The Impossible Collection of Fashion
Author: Valerie SteelePublisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 1614280169
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
In this limited edition, Ultimate Collection format linen clamshell and handmade oversized book, Valerie Steele flexes her curatorial muscle by showcasing the most iconic dresses of the twentieth century. From Poiret to Pucci, Doucet to Dior, Vionnet to Valentino, Steele selects one hundred dresses that caused a stir either on the runway or entering a room and ultimately inspired new directions in fashion. Steele’s selections include Paul Poiret's figure-liberating 1907 gown, Madame Grès’s sublimely draped goddess creation from 1938, Jean Paul Gaultier's shockingly exaggerated cone-bust corset dress circa 1984, and Hussein Chalayan’s awe-inspiring remote-control fiberglass Airplane dress from 2000. The compilation, while certainly subjective, is sure to receive nods of recognition along with a gasp or two of surprise.
Establishing Dress History
Author: Lou TaylorPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719066399
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
'Establishing Dress History' will appeal not only to students and academics bt all those those with an interest in the history of dress and fashion. The title fuses together two areas of current academic interest, dress design and history, and current museum studies approaches.