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Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion
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Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion
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| Notes: The MIT Press, Published 2003. Hardcover, xi, 438 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Cream textured-paper boards with a pale ivory cloth spine and silver spine lettering; light soiling and a couple of faint marks to the covers, mild bumping to the edges and corners, and modest shelf wear; binding tight. The black coated front free endpaper has bled a small stain into the top spine-corner of the half-title; text otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial jacket is faintly rippled from damp and shows a few short edge nicks and light shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in early twentieth-century France, centered on the couturier Paul Poiret and the tension between originality and reproduction that lies at the heart of haute couture, designed for the wealthy yet adapted for sale to a broad consumer market. She examines the relationships between elite and popular culture, the professional theater and the fashion show, and the presumed polarity between classical and Orientalist sensibilities, closing with a fresh context for Marcel Duchamp's readymades. Contents: Introduction; Fashion, Art, and the Marketing of Modernism; Theater and the Spectacle of Fashion; Fashioning Commodity Culture; The Readymade and the Genuine Reproduction; Conclusion; Notes; Sources Consulted; List of Illustrations; Index. | |||||||||||||||
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