Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930
by Radu Stern
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
The late nineteenth-century invention of fashion as we understand it today inspired avant-garde artists to create an art form to counter commercial fashion. They appropriated clothing as an art form that could break through the traditional boundaries of art to act directly on life. The development of clothing and contributions to it from various artistic movements and key figures. 205 pages with over 100 illustrations, many in colour. Book in very good+ condition ex library with small stamp on first, last and inside back cover. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with sticker on spine and back.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lems Bookshop (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2735
- Title
- Against Fashion
- Author
- Radu Stern
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2004
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Art, History, Life, Sciences, Reference,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Life Sciences; Reference; Art;
Terms of Sale
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Lems Bookshop
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia
About Lems Bookshop
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