Androgyne, fashion + gender, Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor
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Label
Androgyne, fashion + gender, Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Androgyne
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
975365959
Responsibility statement
Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor
Sub title
fashion + gender
Summary
In January 2011, Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture runway show ended with the image of a willowy blonde bride in a diaphanous gown. The bride was a man, and one of the first models to walk for both men's and women's collections. The event marked the start of a trend. "This ad is gender neutral," proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; "I resist definitions," announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith wearing a skirt. The art of Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and the mystic Josephin Peladan prove that the turn of the previous century was as compelled by androgyny as this one. Patrick Mauries presents a cultural history of androgyny--accompanied by a striking selection of more than 120 images, from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary fashion photography--drawing on the worlds of art and literature to give us a deeper understanding of the strange but timeless human drive to escape from defined categories
Table Of Contents
Beneath the veil -- 'A length of horsehair twine' -- A body of ivory -- The inverted body -- Opposing anatomies -- Life as a novel -- Civilization and its discontented -- An amphibious creature -- Puer senilis -- The 'Androgynosphinx' -- Amazons -- Flaming creatures -- A certain Mr Fish -- 'Ladies and Gentlemen ... and others' -- The latest mode
resource.variantTitle
Fashion and genderFashion plus genderAndrogyny
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Creator
Subject
- Art
- works of art
- Androgynie
- illustrated books
- Androgyny (Psychology)
- Identité sexuelle
- Clothing and dress
- sex role
- fine arts (discipline)
- Ouvrages illustrés
- Pictorial Work
- Gender identity
- Clothing
- Androgyny (Psychology) in art
- Identité de genre dans l'art
- Vêtements
- Illustrated works
- clothing
- Gender identity in art
- main garments
- Personal Autonomy
- Illustrated works
- Clothing and dress + Psychological aspects
- Fashion -- Pictorial works
- Gender Identity
- Fashion + Social aspects
- Androgynie dans l'art
- Pictorial works
Content
Author
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject28
- Art
- works of art
- Androgynie
- illustrated books
- Androgyny (Psychology)
- Identité sexuelle
- Clothing and dress
- sex role
- fine arts (discipline)
- Ouvrages illustrés
- Pictorial Work
- Gender identity
- Clothing
- Androgyny (Psychology) in art
- Identité de genre dans l'art
- Vêtements
- Illustrated works
- clothing
- Gender identity in art
- main garments
- Personal Autonomy
- Illustrated works
- Clothing and dress + Psychological aspects
- Fashion -- Pictorial works
- Gender Identity
- Fashion + Social aspects
- Androgynie dans l'art
- Pictorial works
- Content2
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Translator1
- Mapped to1