ISBN:
0857721283
,
9780857721280
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series Statement:
International library of cultural studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bancroft, Alison Fashion and Psychoanalysis : Styling the Self
DDC:
391.0019
Keywords:
1900 - 1999
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Fashion / History / 20th century
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Fashion / Psychological aspects
;
Social Science
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming
;
Fashion
;
Psychoanalysis and culture
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Geschichte
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Psychologie
;
Fashion History 20th century
;
Psychoanalysis and culture
;
Design
;
Verkleidung
;
Modefotografie
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Theorie
;
Mode
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Geschlecht
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Haute couture
;
Psychoanalyse
;
Mode
;
Geschlecht
;
Verkleidung
;
Mode
;
Design
;
Theorie
;
Mode
;
Psychoanalyse
;
Modefotografie
;
Haute couture
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Fashion Photography and the Myth of the Unified Subject; 2. Inspiring Desire: The Case for Haute Couture; 3. Queering Fashion, Dressing Transgression; 4. Fashion, Text, Symptom; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become ques
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