Fashion and Imagination traces fashion's expanding relationship with photography, film, visual art, performance, architecture, and literature — mapping how, since the 1960s, clothing became a medium for concepts, politics, and cultural provocation.
About This Book
Fashion is no longer confined to the body or the runway. Since the 1960s, the boundaries between fashion and fine art have dissolved to the point where the two disciplines are nearly indistinguishable — and it is in that contested space where the most compelling visual culture of our era has emerged. Fashion and Imagination examines this fertile overlap through essays and images, arguing that fashion, far from being trivial, has become one of the most potent vehicles for ideas, political ideals, and imaginative expression. For designers, architects, and cultural theorists interested in the intersections of dress, identity, and contemporary visual culture, this is a substantive and wide-ranging reference.
Key Features
- 413 pages of essays and images spanning fashion's relationships with photography, film, visual art, performance art, architecture, and literature
- Edited by Jos Arts, Patrizia Calefato, Jan Brand, Jose Teunissen, and Catelijne de Muijnck
- Published by Artez Press, 2010
What You'll Discover
- How fashion shifted from garment-making to a medium for communicating concepts, ideas, and political ideals from the 1960s onwards
- The specific points of interchange between fashion and disciplines including film, performance art, and architecture
- Why fashion and art, in a culture of increasing uniformity, have produced the most unexpected and liberating visual culture of the modern era
- A multi-authored, cross-disciplinary perspective drawing on contributions from fashion theorists, critics, and cultural scholars
About the Author
This volume is edited by Jos Arts alongside co-editors Patrizia Calefato, Jan Brand, Jose Teunissen, and Catelijne de Muijnck. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 413
- Dimensions: 140mm x 240mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789089101402
- Publisher: Artez Press
- Publication Date: 2010
Perfect For: Fashion theorists, cultural critics, architects and designers interested in cross-disciplinary visual culture, and students of art history, performance, or contemporary design.