The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atla

Description: The Modern Venus by Elisabeth Gernerd From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century womans wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political allegiances. These so-called ephemeral flights of fashion were not peripheral and supplementary, but highly charged artefacts, acting as cultural currency in contemporary society.The Modern Venus highlights the significance of these elements of a womans wardrobe in 1770s and 1780s Britain and the Atlantic World, and shows how they played their part in transforming fashionable dress when this was expanding to new heights and volumes. Dissecting the female silhouette into regions of the body and types of dress and shifting away from a broad-sweeping stylistic evolution, this book explores these potent players within the womans armoury. Marrying material, archival and visual approaches to dress history, and drawing on a rich range of sources – including painted portraiture, satirical prints, diaries, memoirs – The Modern Venus unpacks dress as a medium and mediator in womens lives. It demonstrates the importance of these overlooked garments in defining not just a womans silhouette, but also her social and cultural situation, and thereby shapes our understanding of late 18th-century life.With over 125 color images, The Modern Venus is a remarkable resource for scholars, students and costume lovers alike. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Elisabeth Gernerd is a historian of 18th-century dress, art and material culture. She is Lecturer in Design Cultures at De Montfort University, UK, and former postdoctoral fellow at Historic Royal Palaces, UCLA, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Table of Contents List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Fashioning the Modern Venus1. Head First: Brimmed Hats and Calashes on the Tides of Fashion2. Let Us Examine Their Tails: The Material and Satirical Lifecycles of Cork Rumps and Bums3. By Hand: Silk and Fur Muffs4. Tight Lacing: The Motifs and Materiality of StaysConclusion: The Fickle GoddessBibliographyIndex Review Meticulously researched and methodologically innovative, The Modern Venus reveals how underwear and accessories shaped not just womens bodies, but their engagement with the world. This sumptuous book is a must read for anyone interested in 18th-century material, literary and visual culture. * Jennie Batchelor, University of York, UK *A seriously interesting fashion history book on late 18th-century underwear and accessories, based on first-rate research. Great images, highly readable and intelligently planned and written. * Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK * Promotional Set within the sartorial landscape of the 1770s and 1780s, The Modern Venus is the first book to explore how underwear and accessories transformed fashionable dress in Britain and the Atlantic World. Details ISBN1350293385 Author Elisabeth Gernerd Short Title The Modern Venus Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1350293385 ISBN-13 9781350293380 Format Hardcover Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date 2023-11-16 Subtitle Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 127 color illus NZ Release Date 2023-11-16 UK Release Date 2023-11-16 Pages 280 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2024-01-10 DEWEY 391.209182109033 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:158370430;

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