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Book Empire Fashions

Download or read book Empire Fashions written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coloring book panorama of late-18th- and early-19th-century French fashions offers a fascinating survey of styles. 45 plates of detailed, accurate illustrations include representations of claw-hammer frock coats and vests for the well-dressed man, loose pantaloons and shorter skirts for the working classes, high-waisted promenade gowns for fashionable ladies, and accessories. 45 black-and-white illustrations.

Book Empire of Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : BuYun Chen
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2019-07-12
  • ISBN : 0295745312
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Empire of Style written by BuYun Chen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style

Book The Imperial Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 0870992325
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Imperial Style written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1980 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book based on the hugely successful exhibition Fashions of the Hapsburg Era: Austria-Hungary, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from December 1979 through August 1980. The show presented more than 150 costumes, uniforms, and military and equestrian trappings dating from the eighteenth century in Austria and Hungary to the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918. But at the heart of the exhibition were the costumes and liveries worn at court in the late nineteenth century, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth—one of the most highly romantic periods in European history ... Each essay is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, with eighteen specially commissioned color plates of costumes and accouterments in the exhibition. A detailed chronology of the years between 1699 and 1918 and a selected bibliography are included"--Metropolitan Museum of Art website, viewed May 16, 2022.

Book Clothing the Spanish Empire

Download or read book Clothing the Spanish Empire written by M. Vicente and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.

Book Napoleon and the empire of fashion

Download or read book Napoleon and the empire of fashion written by Cristina Barreto and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minimal luxury : fashion Napoleon style / Annamaria Sbisa ́-- The evolution of the revolutionary muse / Timothy Greenfield-Sanders -- About the collection / Cristina Barreto, Martin Lancaster -- "Journal des Dames et des Modes", "Costume Parisien" -- Directoire : the age of extravagance -- Aspects of life -- A day in the life -- Men : the origins of the modern look -- Jane Austen -- Napoleon and the economics of fashion -- The empire of fashion -- The emperor of fashion -- A democratic fashion : the evolution of cut and form 1795-1815 / Natalie Garbett -- A girl's best friends / Caterina Fuoco -- Restoration / Angela Lusvarghi -- Napoleon, the art of dictators, and the disenfranchisement of Parisian art / Demetrio Paparoni.

Book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire

Download or read book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire written by Denise Amy Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

Book Fashion in Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie Simon
  • Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
  • Release : 2003-05-02
  • ISBN : 9780302006580
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Fashion in Art written by Marie Simon and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1900 fashion in Paris became an art form in itself, its designers inspired to creations of ever greater elegance and exoticism by the examples of the Old Masters and the popular painters of the day. But as art inspired fashion, so fashion served as a muse for art: painters from Courbet to Whistler, from Manet to Vuillard borrowed the poses of their models from the fashion plates of the day, and embraced the intimate scene - a walk in the garden, a visit from a friend - so typical of the genre. The dialogue between fashion and art is illustrated here by some 120 paintings - works by Ingres, Tissot, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Seurat and Degas among them - and a clutch of hitherto unpublished photographs from the recently discovered archive of Disderi.

Book The Fashion Coloring Book

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  • Author : Sharon Lee Tate
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780060466121
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The Fashion Coloring Book written by Sharon Lee Tate and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire de L   ph  m  re

Download or read book Empire de L ph m re written by Gilles Lipovetsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. It argues that mass produced fashion offers many choices, which in turn enable consumers to become complex individuals within a consolidated society.

Book Paris Fashion

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  • Author : Valerie Steele
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-09-21
  • ISBN : 1474245498
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Paris Fashion written by Valerie Steele and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle "Coco†? Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture – created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers. First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.

Book Byzantine Fashions

Download or read book Byzantine Fashions written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing styles from all classes during the Byzantine Empire are depicted here in more than 80 drawings. Included are examples of royal wedding garb, a shepherd in a short tunic, a court dancer, a court dignitary, a merchant, a naval officer, body armor of Roman warriors, a priest, and the robes of the Emperor Constantine. Captions accompany the illustrations.

Book The Empire s New Clothes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Murphy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-01
  • ISBN : 0190935006
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Empire s New Clothes written by Philip Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.

Book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire

Download or read book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire written by Denise Amy Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

Book The Delineator

Download or read book The Delineator written by R. S. O'Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue for Oct. 1894 has features articles on Mount Holyoke College and Millinery as an employment for women.

Book The Empire s New Clothes

Download or read book The Empire s New Clothes written by Christine Ruane and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1701 Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional dress and wear European fashion. Those who produced or sold Russian clothing would face "dreadful punishment." Peter's dress decree, part of his drive to make Russia more like Western Europe, had a profound impact on the history of Imperial Russia. This engrossing book explores the impact of Westernization on Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries and presents a wealth of photographs of ordinary Russians in all their finery. Christine Ruane draws on memoirs, mail-order catalogues, fashion magazines, and other period sources to demonstrate that Russia's adoption of Western fashion had symbolic, economic, and social ramifications and was inseparably linked to the development of capitalism, industrial production, and new forms of communication. This book shows how the fashion industry became a forum through which Russians debated and formulated a new national identity.

Book The Fabric of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danielle C. Skeehan
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-08
  • ISBN : 1421439689
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Fabric of Empire written by Danielle C. Skeehan and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together methods and materials traditionally belonging to literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, The Fabric of Empire provides a new model for thinking about the different media, languages, literacies, and textualities in the early Atlantic world.

Book Harper s Bazaar

Download or read book Harper s Bazaar written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: