Clothing Art: The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600-1914

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An entirely new way of taking a look on the history of fashion through the eyes of artists

There have at all times been essential links between art and clothing. Artists have documented the ever-evolving trends in fashion, popularized certain styles of dress, and from time to time even designed fashions. That is the first book to explore in depth the fascinating points of contact between art and clothing, and in doing so it constructs a new and innovative history of dress by which the artist plays a central role. 
 
Aileen Ribeiro provides an illuminating account of the relationship between artists and clothing from the 17th century, when a more complex and sophisticated attitude to dress first seemed, to the early 20th century, when the boundaries between art and fashion became more fluid: haute couture may well be seen as art, and art used textiles and clothes in highly imaginative ways.  Her narrative encompasses such themes as the ways by which clothing has helped to define the nation state; how masquerade and dressing up were key subjects in art and life; and how, at the same time as many artists found increasing inspiration in high fashion, others became involved in designing “artistic” and reform dress.  Sumptuously illustrated, Clothing Art also delves into the ways by which artists represent the clothes they depict in their work, approaches which range from photographic detail, through varying degrees of imaginative reality, to generalized drapery.  

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