Fabric of vision
Subtitle: dress and drapery in painting
By: Anne Hollander.
Contributors: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; [New Haven, Conn.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Draperies in art -- Exhibitions; Drapery in art -- Exhibitions; Clothing and dress in art -- Exhibitions; Painting, European -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "This 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." "Drawing on works by artists over a span of six centuries as well as fashion plates, photographs and film stills, the author shows how drapery in painting evolved in the period following the Renaissance, becoming ever more flamboyant and theatrical, before the revolution of taste at the end of the eighteenth century saw a return to Neoclassical ideals of simplicity in art and dress."--Jacket.
Notes: Exhibition at the National Gallery, London, June 19, 2002-Sept. 8, 2002.

Includes index.