Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form

by Judith Brown

Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447798
• ISBN13: 9780801447792
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher