Dressed as in a painting
Subtitle: women and British aestheticism in an age of reform
By: Kimberly Wahl
Series: Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies; Becoming modern/Reading dress; Becoming modern; Becoming modern
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781611684254; 9781611684384
Subjects: Fashion design; Social life and customs; Fashion; Aesthetic movement (Art); Women's clothing; History
Description: This book provides a lucid exploration of the interrelations between fashion, art, and aestheticism during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Although artistic forms of dress have been the subject of short studies before, no book has exclusively focused on aesthetic dress and its various expressions in the visual cultures of Victorian Britain. More importantly, no book has attempted to investigate the gap between the material facts of artistic clothing as it was embodied in the wearer, and its presence as an idealized sartorial trope in the visual and textual print culture of the period. This book will have broad appeal to scholars of art history, material culture, British studies, and beyond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origin and issues; title: Dress reform and the authority of art in Victorian aesthetic culture; title: Aesthetic dress in the work of James McNeill Whistler; title: The Grosvenor Gallery : context and climate for artistic dressing; title: Popular culture and the fashioning of aestheticism; title: The artful containment of the aesthetic female body; title: The value of aesthetic dress.