Images on the page: a fashion iconography

Abstract

"This book is a guide to using Art History's theory of iconography to interpret fashion imagery, thereby uncovering meanings related to society, class, culture and the history of dress"--Publisher's description.

Contents

Introduction: (A new tool for the fashion image: iconography) -- Renaissance books of clothes -- The seventeenth century: A new profession: the gentleman journalist writing for Le Mercure galant -- The eighteenth century: from the fashion doll to the fashion plate -- Capturing modernity in nineteenth century France and England -- Modernism. Fashion and art; is fashion art? -- The photographed image on the page -- The fashion show: fashion as 'spectacle'.