AngloMania tradition and transgression in British fashion Andrew Bolton ; with an introduction by Ian Buruma

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolton, Andrew, 1966-

Contributor:

Buruma, Ian, writer of introduction.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion--Great Britain--History--Exhibitions.

Fashion.

Fashion design--Great Britain--History--Exhibitions.

Fashion design.

Fashion designers--Great Britain--History--Exhibitions.

Fashion designers.

National characteristics, English, in art--Exhibitions.

National characteristics, English, in art.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) color illustrations

Other Title:

Anglo mania.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2006]

Summary:

"AngloMania presents historical costumes with clothing of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in a series of theatrical vignettes staged in The Metropolitan Museum's English Period Rooms."--Jacket

"Anglomania gripped Europe during the mid to late 18th century. Continental Anglophiles such as Voltaire and Montesquieu saw England as a land of reason, freedom, and tolerance. Yet what began as an intellectual phenomenon became, and has remained, a matter of style. Through the lens of fashion, this volume examines aspects of English culture that continue to capture the imaginations of Europeans and Americans, among them the class system, sport, royalty, pageantry, eccentricity, the gentleman, and the country garden. Englishness is a romantic construct, formed by fictive and imaginary narratives. These narratives are, however, not merely the product of European-American Anglophilia but are fostered by the English themselves. As this book reveals, they can be found in the novels of Samuel Richardson and in the paintings of George Stubbs and William Hogarth. AngloMania presents historical costumes with clothing of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in a series of theatrical vignettes staged in the Museum's English Period Rooms. The illuminating and entertaining texts are complemented by an essay, which traces the desire for all things British"-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website

Contents:

Tell a man by his clothes Ian Buruma John Bull The English garden : Kirtlington Park dining room Upstairs/downstairs : Cassiobury Park staircase The deathbed : Hampton Court state bed Empire and monarchy : Elizabethan room Francomania : Croome Court tapestry room The gentlemen's club : Lansdowne dining room The hunt The hunt ball Catalogue Illustrations

Notes:

"This catalogue has been adapted from the exhibition 'AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, ' held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 3 to September 4, 2006"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (page 157)

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Bolton, Andrew, 1966- AngloMania

OCLC:

754683353