Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century
Author:   Rebecca Arnold
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781860645556


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 May 2011
Format:   Paperback
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This text argues that fashion and the imagery surrounding it give us a vision of Western culture that is both enticing and alienating, flaunting capitalism's euphoric emblems of glamour and success but also representing the underside of modern life. In the 1970s, photographers like Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton set models against backdrops of tarnished glamour; in the 1990s Alexander McQueen and John Galliano created decadent femmes fatales whose sexual allure was equally tempting and threatening. Rebecca Arnold exlores the complex nature of modern fashion, attempting to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety that it provokes.

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Author:   Rebecca Arnold
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
ISBN:  

9781860645556


ISBN 10:   1860645550
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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