Fashion drive : extreme clothing in the visual arts / Cathérine Hug and Christoph Becker ; editing: Cathérine Hug, Carlotta Graedel Matthäi, Franziska Lentzsch.
Publisher:
Kerber Verlag,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, April 20-July 15, 2018. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Women's wear and tear on (Austrian) public-righteous television / Elfriede Jelinek. Fashion drive: an introduction / Catherine Hug -- A fold of clothing is a trace of passion / Peter McNeil -- Animals in fashion - from silk to feathers to fur and faux-fur and their sensual appeals / Philipp Zitzlsperger -- Fashion of the social elite clothing : Clothing, acessories and their regulations by sumptuary laws in Swiss cities of the Ancien regime / Janine Jakob -- Fashion in times of social upheaval : The French revolution / Barbara Vinken -- some Anglo-French comparisons in fashions / Aileen Ribeiro -- Uniformity and national fashions in the European context after the fall of the first French empire / Werner Telesko -- The magic of the uniform : Dress codes, fashion dictates and the spread of civilianuniforms through the Congress of Vienna / Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner -- The importance of being a dandy / Inessa Kouteinikova -- Under the skirt : The crinoline as a motif / Katharina Tietze -- Fashion and public in structural change / Cathérine Hug -- Artists design clothes -- Military look 6S / Franz Schuh -- I shop therefore I am (female) : The female commodity fetish between sacrality and pornography / Sonja Eismann -- Women's wear and tear on (Austrian) public-righteous television / Elfriede Jelinek.
Summary:
A journey through circa 500 years of fashion history as reflected in art: How have artists reacted to extreme phenomena such as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline, or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic factor as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities, an expression of longing, and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global homogenization through "fast fashion," this exhibition aims to provide a critical and at the same time sensory overview of clothing in art and the problematic and subversive moments in the history of fashion through the techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and film.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.