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Genre/Form: | Anthologie (Descripteur de forme) [Anthologies] |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel L Purdy |
ISBN: | 081664392X 9780816643929 |
OCLC Number: | 470134643 |
Notes: | Bibliogr. p. 341-347. |
Description: | 1 v. (XIII-355 p.) ; 26 cm |
Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Daniel Leonhard Purdy. |
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Abstract:
4e de couverture: In The Rise of Fashion, Daniel Leonhard Purdy brings together key writings from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century that explore fashion as the ultimate expression of modernity. Making available many previously untranslated or otherwise unfamiliar works from French, German, and English, Purdy establishes an extraordinary lineage of fashion commentary dating back to Mandeville and Voltaire, which laid the groundwork for the writings on commodity culture of Adorno, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School. From critiques of aristocratic excess to accounts of fashion's influence on our ideals of masculinity or femininity, from the figure of the dandy and the eroticism of clothing to the class politics of fashion, this landmark reader includes works by philosophers (Carlyle, Rousseau, Georg Simmel) and social theorists (Herbert Spencer, Veblen), as well as writers (Goethe, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Wilde) and critics (Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos, Simone de Beauvoir). Collecting and contextualizing many of the earliest and most significant formulations of fashion theory, The Rise of Fashion provocatively examines the proposition that to be modern is to be fashionable.
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