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Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
. Ed(S): Norberg, Kathryn; Rosenbaum, Sandra
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Editor(s): Norberg, Kathryn; Rosenbaum, Sandra. Series: Costume Society of America: Studying and Shaping World Dress. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AFH; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 871.
Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories. Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically. Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century.
With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the ... Read more constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images available in print. Show Less
Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories. Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically. Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century.
With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the ... Read more constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images available in print. Show Less
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Costume Society of America: Studying and Shaping World Dress
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896728578
SKU
V9780896728578
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About . Ed(S): Norberg, Kathryn; Rosenbaum, Sandra
Kathryn Norberg is a professor of history and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She has published on French history and is the coeditor of Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past. Sandra Rosenbaum is the retired curator-in-charge of the Doris Stein Research Center for Costume and ... Read more
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