Fashion drive
Subtitle: extreme clothing in the visual arts
By: Cathérine Hug and Christoph Becker [curators] ; Kunsthaus Zurich [editor]
Contributors: Kunsthaus Zürich
Series: Kerber culture; Kerber culture
Publisher: Kerber Verlag; Kerber
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9783735604330
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fashion; Fashion in art; Exhibitions; History
Description: A journey through circa 500 years of fashion history as reflected in art: how have artists reacted to extreme phenomena such as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline, or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic factor as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities, an expression of longing, and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global homogenization through "fast fashion," this exhibition aims to provide a critical and at the same time sensory overview of clothing in art and the problematic and subversive moments in the history of fashion through the techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and film.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, April 20-July 15, 2018.

Text in English, translated from the French and German.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Made of steel  -- Christoph Becker; title: Fashion drive: an introduction  -- Catherine Hug; title: A fold of clothing is a trace of passion  -- Peter McNeil; title: Animals in fashion - from silk to feathers to fur and faux-fur and their sensual appeals  -- Philipp Zitzlsperger; title: Fashion of the social elite clothing : clothing, accessories and their regulations by sumptuary laws in Swiss cities of the Ancien Regime  -- Janine Jakob; title: Fashion in times of social upheaval : The French Revolution  -- Barbara Vinken; title: Some Anglo-French comparisons in fashion  -- Aileen Ribeiro; title: Uniformity and national fashions in the European context after the fall of the first French empire  -- Werner Telesko; title: The magic of the uniform : dress codes, fashion dictates and the spread of civilian uniforms through the Congress of Vienna  -- Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner; title: The importance of being a dandy  -- Inessa Kouteinikova; title: Under the skirt : the crinoline as a motif  -- Katharina Tietze; title: Fashion and public in structural change  -- Cathérine Hug; title: Artists design clothes --; title: Military look 6S  -- Franz Schuh; title: I shop therefore I am (female) : the female commodity fetish between sacrality and pornography  -- Sonja Eismann; title: Women's wear and tear on (Austrian) public-righteous television -- Elfriede Jelinek.