Couture culture : a study in modern art and fashion / Nancy J. Troy.
Couture culture : a study in modern art and fashion / Nancy J. Troy.
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Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, c2003.
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N746.92/26
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English
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Physical content
xi, 438 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Fashion, Art, and the Marketing of Modernism -- 2. Theater and the Spectacle of Fashion -- 3. Fashioning Commodity Culture -- 4. The Readymade and the Genuine Reproduction.
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Publisher
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c2003.
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Summary
The contradictions she uncovers suggest surprising parallels with the readymades and fashion-related work of Marcel Duchamp, who explored the questions of originality and authenticity raised by couture culture during the 1910s and 1920s." "In contrast to dominant accounts of early twentieth-century art that have dismissed fashion as superficial, fl...
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Couture culture : a study in modern art and fashion / Nancy J. Troy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N746.92/26
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74VvyLg3RlqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyLg3RlqO
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ISBN
0262701030 :
9780262201407 (hc : alk. paper)
0262201402 (hc : alk. paper)
9780262201407 :
0262201402 :
9780262701037 :
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746.920904
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991016128489702626
