Dandies
Subtitle: fashion and finesse in art and culture
By: edited by Susan Fillin-Yeh
Contributors: Fillin-Yeh, Susan
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Dandies -- History; Men's clothing -- History; Fashion -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The layered look: Coco Chanel and contagious celebrity / Rhonda K. Garelick; title: "Indian dandies": sartorial finesse and self-presentation along the Columbia River, 1790-1855 / Robert E. Moore; title: Dandyism and abstraction in the universe defined by Newton / Carter Ratcliff; title: Dandies, marginality and modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and other cross-dressers / Susan Fillin-Yeh; title: "The dandy in me": Romaine Brook's 1923 portraits / Joe Lucchesi; title: Claude Cahun, Dandy provocateuse / Jennifer Blessing; title: Cross-dressing and the crossroads: mimicry and ambivalence in Yoruba masked performance / Kimberly Miller; title: Sartor Africanus / Richard J. Powell; title: Twiggy and Trotsky: or, what the Soviet dandy will be wearing this next five-year plan / Mark Allen Svede; title: Epilogue: Quentin Crisp, the last Dandy? / Rhonda K. Garelick