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- Dressed as in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
- Series: Becoming Modern/Reading Dress
summary
In Dressed as in a Painting, Kimberly Wahl provides a lucid exploration of the interrelations between fashion, art, and Aestheticism during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Although artistic forms of dress have been the subject of short studies before, no book has focused exclusively on Aesthetic dress and its various expressions in the visual cultures of Victorian Britain. More important, no book has attempted to investigate the gap between the material facts of artistic clothing as it was embodied on the wearer, and its presence as an idealized sartorial trope in the visual and textual print culture of the period.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: Origins and Issues
- pp. xi-xxxiv
- Conclusion: The Value of Aesthetic Dress
- pp. 161-168
- Bibliography
- pp. 187-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611684155
Related ISBN(s)
9781611684254
MARC Record
OCLC
850912317
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No