Fashion drive : extreme clothing in the visual arts / Cathřine Hug and Christoph Becker ; editing: Cathřine Hug, Carlotta Graedel Matthĩ, Franziska Lentzsch.
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TextSeries: Kerber culturePublication details: Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, 2018. Description: 327 p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN: 9783735604330 (book trade edition : pbk.); 3735604331 (book trade edition : pbk.)Subject(s): Fashion in art -- Exhibitions | Fashion -- Social aspects -- Exhibitions | Fashion -- History -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N8217.F33 | F37 2018Summary: A journey through circa 500 years of fashion history as reflected in art: How have artists reacted to extreme phenomena such as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline, or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic factor as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities, an expression of longing, and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global homogenization through "fast fashion," this exhibition aims to provide a critical and at the same time sensory overview of clothing in art and the problematic and subversive moments in the history of fashion through the techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and film.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, April 20-July 15, 2018.
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A journey through circa 500 years of fashion history as reflected in art: How have artists reacted to extreme phenomena such as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline, or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic factor as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities, an expression of longing, and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global homogenization through "fast fashion," this exhibition aims to provide a critical and at the same time sensory overview of clothing in art and the problematic and subversive moments in the history of fashion through the techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and film.
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