Dressing the resistance : the visual language of protest through history / Camille Benda ; foreword by Ane Crabtree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benda, Camille, author.

Crabtree, Ane, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Local Philadelphia: Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Social aspects.

Fashion.

Clothing and dress--Social aspects.

Clothing and dress.

Fashion--Psychological aspects.

Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects.

Protest movements.

Social change.

Clothing.

Gender expression.

Genre:

illustrated books.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Visual language of protest through history

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022]

Summary:

This volume celebrates how we use clothing, fashion, and costume to ignite activism and spur social change. Weaving together historical and current protest movements across the globe, costume designer and dress historian Camille Benda explores how everyday people and the societies they live in harness the visual power of dress to fight for radical change. American suffragettes made and wore dresses from old newspapers printed with voting slogans. Male farmers in rural India wore their wives' saris while staging sit-ins on railroad tracks against government neglect. Benda analyzes cultural movements and the clothes that defined them through over 150 archival images, photographs, and paintings that bring the history of activism to life, from ancient Roman rebellions to the #MeToo movement, from twentieth-century punk subcultures to Black Lives Matter marches. --From publisher description.

"Dressing the Resistance' explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in shaping protest movements throughout history. In short, clothing was often the most basic opportunity for groups to rebel: a simple, mundane item to express their discontent. American suffragettes made and wore dresses from old newspapers printed with voting slogans. British Punks took a humble safety pin from the household sewing kit, punched it through an earlobe and headed out to face a bleak post-war world. And male farmers in India wore their wives' saris while staging sit-ins on railroad tracks. With the advent of the Trump administration and the ensuing worldwide Women's March in January 2017, the #MeToo movement and #BlackLivesMatter, protest has again entered the American zeitgeist, this time with a stronger need for inspiration and action than ever before." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Clothing as canvas

Part one. Status, class, dress. Power to the people: everyday dress as protest

Shock the system: subculture and street style

Strut your stuff: fashion and elite resistance

Part two. Unity for change. Conform to survive: strength in numbers

Rainbow warriors: color revolutions

Military to militant: join the club

Part three. Beyond clothing. Costume and rebellion: acting up, acting out

Portable protest: hide and seek

Skin and symbols: baring it all.

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Status, Class, Dress

One. Power to the People: Everyday Dress as Protest

Two. Shock the System: Subculture and Street Style

Three. Strut Your Stuff: Fashion and Elite Resistance

pt. Two Unity for Change

Four. Conform to Survive: Strength in Numbers

Five. Rainbow Warriors: Color Revolutions

Six. Military to Militant: Join the Club

pt. Three Beyond Clothing

Seven. Costume and Rebellion: Acting Up, Acting Out

Eight. Portable Protest: Hide and Seek

Nine. Skin and Symbols: Baring It All.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 206-210) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Benda, Camille. Dressing the resistance.

ISBN:

9781616899882

1616899883

OCLC:

1237350203

Publisher Number:

99988611279