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Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century

By Rebecca Arnold

Book information

Publisher
I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Year
2001
ISBN
9781860645556, 1860645550
LCC
GT525 .A75 2001
Open Library ID
OL22455538M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5634609 bytes)
Series
Fashion & Popular Culture
Pages
161\161
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

With quick-paced, beautiful prose, Arnold distills, illuminates, and reveals the violence and decay which has become the dominant theme of end of the Century high-fashion. Generously illustrated and neatly referenced, she examines how power is wielded through fashion; how fashion blurs and disguises; and, most importantly, how it gives expression to the desires and anxieties of a buying public overwhelmed by a kind of creeping brutality. Never losing sight of historical and cultural contexts, she nevertheless delights in making her point by the exquisite examination of a detail. In a word, remarkable!

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