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Hardcover Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century Book

ISBN: 0813529034

ISBN13: 9780813529035

Fashion, Desire and Anxiety: Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century

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Fashion, and the glossy magazines it inhabits, allow Western culture to dream. It permits a person to fantasize and to experiment with new identities. It flaunts glamour and success. Appearance... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Spectacular!

With quick-paced, beautiful prose, Arnold distills, illuminates, and reveals the violence and decay which has become the dominant theme of end of the Century high-fashion. Generously illustrated and neatly referenced, she examines how power is wielded through fashion; how fashion blurs and disguises; and, most importantly, how it gives expression to the desires and anxieties of a buying public overwhelmed by a kind of creeping brutality. Never losing sight of historical and cultural contexts, she nevertheless delights in making her point by the exquisite examination of a detail. In a word, remarkable!
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