ISBN:
1859736017
,
1859736068
,
1847888712
,
9781847888716
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 178 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Dress, body, culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes
Keywords:
Clothing and dress
;
Fashion
;
Clothing and dress History
;
Fashion History
Abstract:
With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate since the nineteenth century. Fashion Classics provid es an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. Car ter fully revives early fashion theorists -- some canonical and others less well known -- and exam
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus; 2 Herbert Spencer's Sartorial Protestantism; 3 Thorstein Veblen's Leisure Class; 4 Georg Simmel: Clothes and Fashion; 5 Alfred Kroeber and the Great Secular Wave; 6 J. C. Flügel and the Nude Future; 7 James Laver, the Reluctant Expert; 8 Roland Barthes and the End of the Nineteenth Century; Appendix: Questionnaire Issued by J.C. Flügel in 1929; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.2752/9781847888716
