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Images on the page : a fashion iconography / Sanda Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Sanda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Fashion.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Clothing and dress.
- Signs and symbols.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This book is a guide to using Art History's theory of iconography to interpret fashion imagery, thereby uncovering meanings related to society, class, culture and the history of dress"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A new tool for the fashion image: Iconography
- 2. Renaissance books of clothes
- 3. The seventeenth century: A new profession - the gentleman journalist writing for Le Mercure galant
- 4. The eighteenth century: From the fashion doll to the fashion plate
- 5. Capturing modernity in nineteenth-century France and England
- 6. Modernism
- pt. One Fashion and art; is fashion art?
- pt. Two The photographed image on the page
- pt. Three The fashion show: Fashion as `spectacle'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Miller, Sanda. Images on the page
- ISBN:
- 9781350115330
- 1350115339
- 9781350216921
- 1350216925
- OCLC:
- 1184123220
- Publisher Number:
- 99988845669
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