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- catalog abstract ""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 becomes something to be perfected and admired." "These dreams and freedoms, Rebecca Arnold proposes, are contradictory. Fashion and its surrounding imagery elicit fear and anxiety in their consumers as well as pleasure. Fashion has come to incorporate the underside of modern life, with violence and decay becoming a dominant theme in clothing design and photography." "Arnold draws on diverse written sources to explore the complex nature of modern fashion. She discusses a range of key themes: how fashion uses and abuses the power of wealth; the alienating promotion of "good" taste; the power plays of sex and display; and how identities can be blurred to disguise and confuse. In order to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety they provoke, she never loses sight of the historical and cultural contexts in which fashion designers and photographers perform."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12139976.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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 becomes something to be perfected and admired." "These dreams and freedoms, Rebecca Arnold proposes, are contradictory. Fashion and its surrounding imagery elicit fear and anxiety in their consumers as well as pleasure. Fashion has come to incorporate the underside of modern life, with violence and decay becoming a dominant theme in clothing design and photography." "Arnold draws on diverse written sources to explore the complex nature of modern fashion. She discusses a range of key themes: how fashion uses and abuses the power of wealth; the alienating promotion of "good" taste; the power plays of sex and display; and how identities can be blurred to disguise and confuse. In order to unravel the contradictory emotions of desire and anxiety they provoke, she never loses sight of the historical and cultural contexts in which fashion designers and photographers perform."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Status, Power and Display -- Excess -- Cruelty and Power -- Simplicity -- Imperfection -- Eco -- Violence and Provocation -- Ultra Style/Ultra Violence -- Gangsters -- Gangstas -- Skinheads -- Punks -- Heroin Chic -- Decadence and Decay -- The Eroticised Body -- Underwear as Outerwear -- Eroticism -- Fetish -- The Brutalised Body -- Flesh -- Skin -- Gender and Subversion -- New Woman -- Dressing Up: Woman -- Dressing Up: Man -- Unisex -- Androgyny.".
- catalog extent "p. cm.".
- catalog identifier "0813529034 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0813529042 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press ,".
- catalog subject "391/.009/04 21".
- catalog subject "Fashion 20th century History.".
- catalog subject "Fashion History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Fashion Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "GT525 .A75 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Status, Power and Display -- Excess -- Cruelty and Power -- Simplicity -- Imperfection -- Eco -- Violence and Provocation -- Ultra Style/Ultra Violence -- Gangsters -- Gangstas -- Skinheads -- Punks -- Heroin Chic -- Decadence and Decay -- The Eroticised Body -- Underwear as Outerwear -- Eroticism -- Fetish -- The Brutalised Body -- Flesh -- Skin -- Gender and Subversion -- New Woman -- Dressing Up: Woman -- Dressing Up: Man -- Unisex -- Androgyny.".
- catalog title "Fashion, desire, and anxiety : image and morality in the twentieth century / Rebecca Arnold.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".