V I S U A L A R T S - Fashion History & Culture
Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women A Cultural Study of French Readymade Fashion, 1945-68 Alexis Romano, Independent Scholar, USA Through a close study of fashion magazines, including Vogue and Elle, Alexis Romano reveals how French readymade fashion and the genre of fashion photography in France developed in tandem. Analyses of representations of space, women and prêtà-porter in such magazines – alongside other cultural ephemera such as contemporary film, documentary photography and family photographs – demonstrate that popular conceptions of fashion and modernity shifted in the period 1945-68. By connecting national and personal histories, Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women reveals the importance of the readymade to broader narratives of postwar reconstruction, national identity, gender and international dialogue. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 16 colour and 38 bw illus PB 9781350215931 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350126190 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350126213 • £21.59 / $28.65 ePdf 9781350126206 • £21.59 / $28.65 Series: Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections • Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Regional Dress
Between Tradition and Modernity Sara Hume, Kent State University Museum, USA Through a rich variety of primary sources including costumes, illustrations, political cartoons, legal documents and oral histories, Regional Dress sheds light on the little known and rarely documented experiences of rural Europeans. Using Alsace as a case study, it looks at how traditional dress evolved in France and Germany from the 19th to 21st centuries, revealing how modernity did not drive out tradition in rural communities but rather led to processes of adaption, preservation and re-evaluation. Its material culture approach to the study of regionalism is essential to students of traditional and folk dress history, European history and design history. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages • 16 color and 84 bw illus HB 9781350147980 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350148000 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350147997 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dressing and Undressing Duchamp
Ingrid E. Mida, Independent Art and Dress Historian, Artist and Curator, Canada Marcel Duchamp’s engagement with clothing has been little-studied. However, photographs of the artist immediately reveal his knowledge of the significance of fashion and clothing to the visual representation of the self. This book explores clothing and dressing as significant themes that recur in Duchamp’s life and his work – including his drawings, his fashioning of his body, his readymades, and his curatorial gestures. In considering the material traces of Duchamp’s fashioning of his body and identity, this book makes a highly original contribution to the understanding of his work and the significance of the clothed body in the vanguard of Modernism. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 42 bw and colour illus HB 9781350236110 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350236141 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350236134 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs
American Women of the late Nineteenth Century Lisa Hodgkins, Pima Community College, Arizona, USA Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs presents iconic garments and provides an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the 1890s, exploring in detail the clothes worn by everyday American women. Previously unpublished vintage photographs show women across the social spectrum wearing items such as the Garibaldi shirt, the cuirass bodice, the Mother Hubbard, bicycle bloomers and much more, allowing the reader to learn about elements of late 19th century women’s dress and develop an understanding of what was fashionable, and why. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 190 bw and color illus PB 9781350249899 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350249851 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350249875 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350249868 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Fear and Clothing
A Cultural History of Identity through Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars Jane Custance Baker, Independent Scholar, UK Dress in English detective fiction was a status marker of interest to both male and female readers made anxious by social change brought about by war, and therefore a set of signs to be read, digested, and possibly employed to model the individual reader’s own dress choices. Through analysing dress in detective fiction, this book reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of 280 interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readership’s anxieties about performance of class, gender, and race and how they changed over that period. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 35 bw illus HB 9781350240308 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350240339 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350240322 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Worn
Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear Ellen Sampson, Northumbria University, UK Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 In a culture and fashion system preoccupied by newness, what is the significance of worn clothes and why do they have the power to affect us so deeply? By focussing on a single garment, the shoe, this book seeks to explore the nature of these relationships and the ways they are reinforced through wearing and repairing. With beautiful photographs and an experimental practicebased methodology, Worn invites us to deepen knowledge through wearing and reconsider marks of use at a time when fast fashion reigns supreme and interest in damaged garments quietly increases. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 272 pages • 105 color illus PB 9781350294547 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350087187 ePub 9781350087194 • £63.00 / $83.38 ePdf 9781350087200 • £63.00 / $83.38 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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