In this excellent and strikingly original book, anne hollander explores the rich and complex heritage of western pictorial art as it has represented the human image - clothed, partially clothed,draped and nude. The civilized eye, she suggests,is always eager for human images,and even more eager for styles in the human image. And we get our ideas ...
Richard Avedon redefined portrait and fashion photography in the 20th century. In the 1940s Avedon burst onto the fashion scene, infusing his photographs with touches of realism and the fantastic. His images were among the first to replace the stiff poses of the past with energetic action scenes that commanded the pages of Harper's Bazaar and ...
From an art historian admired for her brilliance and wit, a provocative argument for the value of modern fashion as sexual expression, with the tailored suit as its strongest example. Dress was equally showy for men and women until the late eighteenth century, when natural simplicity and understatement on the model of the Classical Greek nude ...
This beautifully illustrated and innovative book examines how artists have used clothing and drapery -- real and imagined, sacred and secular -- as elements in their paintings to give emphasis and emotional force to their figures. All kinds of draped cloth, from austere dress to billowing draperies, become in the hands of a gifted artist a ...
A literary and art critic with a penchant for fashion and costume, Hollander serves up a collection of essays on dance, fashion, painting, literature, and film. She emphasizes the visual dimensions of these media and argues that the invention of cinema at the beginning of the century has changed art by making movement seem more important than ...
A literary and art critic with a penchant for fashion and costume, Hollander serves up a collection of essays on dance, fashion, painting, literature, and film. She emphasizes the visual dimensions of these media and argues that the invention of cinema at the beginning of the century has changed art by making movement seem more important than ...
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