Seeing Through Clothes
"Anne Hollander's Seeing Through Clothes pushes erudition to the  point  of originality. The thoroughness with which she examines Western art and  clothes  has precipitated a new subject: how painting, sculpture and photography  mediate  between bodily ideals and what we wear. Other writers have touched on  these  relationships, but only Hollander has accumulated enough in the way of  evidence  and commentary to elevate the clothes-art-body interchange to the status  of an  independent subject."  --Carter Ratcliff, Art in America"Anne Hollander's book is about a distinctive human enterprise,  observed with passionate understanding and more than passing knowledge.  It is a  work of great wisdom."  --Richard Howard,The Nation"[Hollander's] extraordinary book radically alters the way we  see."   --Walter Clemons, Newsweek