Title: Fashioning the frame :
Authors: Cavallaro, Dani,; Warwick, Alexandra.
Date: 1998
Publisher: Berg,
Physical description: xxiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: The body has been the focus of recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship & presents a theory of what dress means in relation to the body.
Contents: Introduction: The body in philosophy and theories of representation -- 1. The rim and the abject -- 2. Shielding and sprawling garments -- 3. The collective body - Fashion, history, commodities -- 4. Surface/depth - dress and the mask -- 5. Clothes in art - painting in and out of the frame
Subject headings (LCSH): Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects.; Clothing and dress--Social aspects.; Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects; Human body--Social aspects