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Images on the page : a fashion iconography / Sanda Miller.

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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:
1 online resource (272 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
Distribution:
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
Place of Publication:
London ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
System Details:
text file
HTML
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:
Introduction: (A new tool for the fashion image: iconography)
Renaissance books of clothes
The seventeenth century: A new profession: the gentleman journalist writing for Le Mercure galant
The eighteenth century: from the fashion doll to the fashion plate
Capturing modernity in nineteenth century France and England
Modernism. Fashion and art; is fashion art?
The photographed image on the page
The fashion show: fashion as 'spectacle'.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-350-11535-5
1-350-12262-9
OCLC:
1238133866

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