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Dandies : Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture / ed. by Susan Fillin-Yeh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814729212
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  • 305.31 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: New Strategies for a Theory of Dandies -- Chapter 1 The Layered Look: Coco Chanel and Contagious Celebrity -- Chapter 2 “Indian Dandies” Sartorial Finesse and Self-Presentation along the Columbia River, 1790–1855 -- Chapter 3 Dandyism and Abstraction in a Universe Defined by Newton -- Chapter 4 Dandies, Marginality, and Modernism Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and Other Cross-Dressers -- Chapter 5 “The Dandy in Me” Romaine Brooks’s 1923 Portraits -- Chapter 6 Claude Cahun, Dandy Provocateuse -- Chapter 7 Cross-Dressing at the Crossroads Mimic and Ambivalence in Yoruba Masked Performance -- Chapter 8 Sartor Africanus -- Chapter 9 Twiggy and Trotsky Or, What the Soviet Dandy Will Be Wearing This Next Five-Year Plan -- Epilogue: Quentin Crisp: The Last Dandy? -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these were not the only dandies. On the contrary, art historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists identify unrecognized dandies flourishing among early 19th century Native Americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, throughout the African-American diaspora, among women, and in the art world. Moving beyond historical and fictional accounts of dandies, this volume juxtaposes theoretical models with evocative images and descriptions of clothing in order to link sartorial self-construction with artistic, social, and political self-invention. Taking into consideration the vast changes in thinking about identity in the academy, Dandies provides a compelling study of dandyism's destabilizing aesthetic enterprise. Contributors: Jennifer Blessing, Susan Fillin-Yeh, Rhonda Garelick, Joe Lucchesi, Kim Miller, Robert E. Moore, Richard J. Powell, Carter Ratcliffe, and Mark Allen Svede.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: New Strategies for a Theory of Dandies -- Chapter 1 The Layered Look: Coco Chanel and Contagious Celebrity -- Chapter 2 “Indian Dandies” Sartorial Finesse and Self-Presentation along the Columbia River, 1790–1855 -- Chapter 3 Dandyism and Abstraction in a Universe Defined by Newton -- Chapter 4 Dandies, Marginality, and Modernism Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and Other Cross-Dressers -- Chapter 5 “The Dandy in Me” Romaine Brooks’s 1923 Portraits -- Chapter 6 Claude Cahun, Dandy Provocateuse -- Chapter 7 Cross-Dressing at the Crossroads Mimic and Ambivalence in Yoruba Masked Performance -- Chapter 8 Sartor Africanus -- Chapter 9 Twiggy and Trotsky Or, What the Soviet Dandy Will Be Wearing This Next Five-Year Plan -- Epilogue: Quentin Crisp: The Last Dandy? -- Contributors -- Index

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Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these were not the only dandies. On the contrary, art historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists identify unrecognized dandies flourishing among early 19th century Native Americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, throughout the African-American diaspora, among women, and in the art world. Moving beyond historical and fictional accounts of dandies, this volume juxtaposes theoretical models with evocative images and descriptions of clothing in order to link sartorial self-construction with artistic, social, and political self-invention. Taking into consideration the vast changes in thinking about identity in the academy, Dandies provides a compelling study of dandyism's destabilizing aesthetic enterprise. Contributors: Jennifer Blessing, Susan Fillin-Yeh, Rhonda Garelick, Joe Lucchesi, Kim Miller, Robert E. Moore, Richard J. Powell, Carter Ratcliffe, and Mark Allen Svede.

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