Rapture : art's seduction by fashion since 1970 / Chris Townsend.
By: Townsend, Chris
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BookPublisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002Description: 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500283834.Subject(s): Fashion design | Fashion and art | Clothing tradeDDC classification: 746.92
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00051427 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rapture surveys the collision of two glamorous and fascinating worlds: art and fashion. Whether covering an art installation in a SoHo boutique, Cindy Sherman's complicity with the tools of mass media or a Keith Haring image advertising a hip brand of vodka, and whether describing clothes as metaphor or sculpture, the use of street-art graffiti on a Louis Vuitton bag or Tracey Emin as Vivienne Westwood's model, Chris Townsend shows how the alluring, illusory faces of fashion and art are fused.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 6)
- 1 Conceptualism and Fashion's Rejection (p. 22)
- 2 Ambivalent Embrace (p. 40)
- 3 The Empty Body Part 1 (p. 56)
- 4 The Empty Body Part 2 (p. 70)
- 5 Fragments of Fashion (p. 80)
- 6 Shopping in Space (p. 90)
- 7 Form and Uniform (p. 102)
- 8 Dressing Up Dressing Down (p. 112)
- 9 Who Will You be Today? (p. 122)
- 10 Not Cut to Pattern (p. 132)
- 11 To Die for (p. 150)
- Conclusion (p. 168)
- End Notes (p. 171)
- Picture Credits (p. 173)
- Index (p. 175)