| A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment Contributor(s): McNeil, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0857857614 ISBN-13: 9780857857613 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Fashion & Accessories - History | Reference - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 030 |
| Series: Cultural Histories |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.9" W x 9.7" (1.50 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to dress. With the rise of print culture and reading publics, fashions were more quickly disseminated and debated than ever, and the appetite for fashion periodicals went hand in hand with a preoccupation with the emerging concept of taste. Richly illustrated with 100 images and drawing on pictorial, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period. |
Contributor Bio(s): McNeil, Peter: - Peter McNeil is a professor of Design History at The University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Chair of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. He is editor of Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources and co-editor of Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, The Men's Fashion Reader and The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives. Professor of Design History at the University of Technology Sydney and Finland Distinguished Professor, Aalto University. |