Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed - Rilegato

Koda, Harold

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ISBN 10: 0300091176 ISBN 13: 9780300091175

Casa editrice: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001

Riassunto

Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion can be seen as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body - the neck, the shoulders, the bust, the waist, the hips, and the feet - have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and, often, deliberate physical deformation.
This book shows that an undeniable if uncanny beauty abides in the bundled cylindricality of geisha tottering on raised geta, or clogs; the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress; the double-door expanse of eighteenth-century panniered court gowns; the bound feet and caged nails of aristocratic Manchu women; the neck-extending chokers of the Masai, of Edwardian beauties, and John Galliano's designs for Dior; or the waist suppression of the sixteenth-century iron corsets and the cinches of early nineteenth-century dandies. The photographs of fashion are augmented by paintings, prints, and drawings and include caricatures by Gilray, Cruikshank, Daumier, and Vernet.

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• Editore: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300091176
• ISBN 13: 9780300091175
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192