Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I
Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz
Abstract
The first in the four-part series, this book charts the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines. The book features a close-up focus on accessories—the shoe, the hat, the necklace—intimately connected to the body. The chapters here offer new theoretical and historical takes on the role of clothing, dress, and accessories in the construction of the modern subject. The book offers array of ideas about the modern body and the ways in which we dress it. From perspectives on the “model b ... More
The first in the four-part series, this book charts the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines. The book features a close-up focus on accessories—the shoe, the hat, the necklace—intimately connected to the body. The chapters here offer new theoretical and historical takes on the role of clothing, dress, and accessories in the construction of the modern subject. The book offers array of ideas about the modern body and the ways in which we dress it. From perspectives on the “model body” to Sonia Delaunay’s designs, from Fascist-era Spanish women’s prescribed ways of dressing to Futurist vests, from Barbara Stanwyck’s anklet to Salvatore Ferragamo’s sandals, from a poet’s tiara to a worker’s cap, from the scarlet letter to the yellow star: this book imparts startling insights into how much the most modest accessory might reveal.
Keywords:
clothing,
shoe,
hat,
necklace,
dress,
accessories,
model body,
Sonia Delaunay,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Salvatore Ferragamo
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816675784 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816675784.001.0001 |
