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Critical fashion practice : from Westwood to Van Beirendonck /
"There is a new form of design practice within the contemporary fashion industry which is active in complex forms of social commentary and critique. While fashion in the modernist era has shown signs of criticism and subversion, these were either in the form of subcultures or perversions, such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page ; Halftitle page ; About the book ; Title page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: FROM SUBCULTURE TO HIGH CULTURE; 1 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'S UNRULY RESISTANCE; Situationism; "Let it Rock," "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die," "SEX," "Seditionaries" and "World's End"; Boutique bricoleur: the meaning of DIY style; Punk and after: the ontology of contemporary fashion; Westwood in the 1980s; For the love of Englishness: "Harris Tweed," "Britain Must Go Pagan" and "Anglomania"; Active resistance to propaganda.
- 2 REI KAWAKUBO'S DECONSTRUCTIVIST SILHOUETTEDeconstruction; Deconstruction and architecture; Deconstruction and fashion; Unclear culture; The inside and outside of clothing; Undead minimalism; 3 GARETH PUGH'S CORPOREAL UNCOMMENSURABILITIES; Masks and performance; Posthumanity and dolls; Immaterial and imaginary fashion; 4 MIUCCIA PRADA'S INDUSTRIAL MATERIALISM; Making ugly cool; Creative collaborations; Prada and cinema; 5 AITOR THROUP'S ANATOMICAL NARRATIVES; Spinozist fashion; Fields of fantasy; The work of fashion in the age of digital reproducibility.
- He's got legs and knows how to use themSkulls, armor and renunciation; 6 VIKTOR & ROLF'S CONCEPTUAL IMMATERIALITIES; Conceptual art versus conceptual fashion; The appearance of nothing; Ciphers; Dolls; "No" and beyond; 7 RAD HOURANI'S GENDER AGNOSTICS1; Unisex, unsex and the tyranny of gender; Androgyny and the different "third terms"; The body in movement; Fashion as installation; 8 RICK OWENS'S GENDER PERFORMATIVITIES; Minimalism; Glamour, decadence and decay; Spatial art and design, installation and furniture; Fashion's avant-garde; Performance art, performing fashion and gender.
- 9 WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK'S HYBRID SCIENCE FICTIONSThe 1980s in London; Fetishism, clowns, ritual; Headgear and masks; Bodily mutations, shapes and beauty; CONCLUSION: TO ALEXANDER McQUEEN, IN MEMORIAM; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Plates.