Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-267) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: addressing fashion in art -- From the studio to the street: modelling neoclassical dress in art and life -- Parures, pashminas, and portraiture, or, How Joséphine Bonaparte fashioned the Napoleonic Empire -- Temporalities of costume and fashion in art of the Romantic period -- Dress and desire: Rossetti's erotics of the unclassifiable and working-class models -- Mourning for Paris: the art and politics of dress after 'l'année terrible' (1870-1) -- Mannequin and monkey in Seurat's Grande jatte -- 'But the coat is the picture': issues of masculine fashioning, politics, and sexual identity in portraiture in England c. 1890-1900 -- Silencing fashion in early twentith-century feminism: the sartorial story of suffrage -- Puppets, patterns, and 'proper gentlemen': men's fashion in Anton Raderscheidt's New objectivity paintings.
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