Behind The Seams: Women Fashion And Work In 19Th-Century France Susan Hiner Bloomsbury Visual Arts Αγγλικά Βιβλία Graphic Design

In This Highly Original Book Susan E Hiner Looks Behind Fashion’s Seams And Focuses On The Women Fashion Producers – Both Working- Middle-Class Who Were Key To Shaping French Economy Thus Opens Up Fields Of Cultural Studies Explores New Ways Understanding 19Th Century By Demonstrating That These Women’s Complex Contradictory Roles As Luxury Items Left Them Exploited An Oppressive System Even They Served Influencers Within It 19Th-Century France Was A Powerful Lucrative Network Depended Expert Manipulation Its Raw Materials Delicate Finger Work Seamstresses Modistes Yielded Frothy Dresses Ethereal Hats Subtle Persuasive Rhetoric Written Chronicles Resulted Savvy Targeted Marketing Campaigns Goods Lifestyles Stylized Visual Splendour Detailed Drawing Engraving Painting Plates Fed Aspirational Fantasy Ended Consumption Yet Paradoxically Effaced Many Whom Rather Than Repeating Familiar Narrative Victims Tells More Complicated Story Hiner’s Close Examination Reveals Productive Workers Writers Artists Achieved Agency Influence Active Careers Their Lives Masked Which Mythologized Popular Culture Rendered Anonymous Marginalized Institutional Exclusion Beautifully Illustrated Colour Throughout Is Rich Resource Essential Reading For All Those Interested History Social Σελίδες: 280 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1130 Διαστάσεις: 18 9X18 9Cm