Isbn: 9780380487776 - seeing through clothes (17 resultados)

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Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Not an x-lib. copy. First paperback printing. The cover has minor to moderate shelf wear and a remainder mark on the bottom edge. The interior is unmarked, the binding is tight and the book is in Very Good+ condition. Illustrated throughout. 504 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. White titles on color illustrated trade paper covers, 504 pages including index plus 16 pages of introductory material. Moderate edge wear and rubbing to cover. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of art works.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. first avon printing book is tight with no markings, some gift greeting on first page from to previous owner, some minor rubbing to edges.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine. 504 pages. Black and white illustrations. Keywords: Pictorial History, Fashion Clothing, Beauty, Underclothes, Sexual symbol, Hair Hairstyles, Naked Nude, Black clothing, Mirror Images, Perfect Figure.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Avon printing with over 300 photographs. Some edgewear and creasing of spine, photo section perhaps a touch brittle, but still holding well. Anne Hollander was an American art historian and cultural critic whose work focused on the relationship between clothing, the human body, and visual representation across Western art history. She brought to her writing a distinctive combination of art historical scholarship and cultural intelligence that allowed her to move fluently between the analysis of paintings and sculpture and the broader history of fashion and dress, treating clothing not as a peripheral or trivial subject but as a serious and revealing lens through which to understand how people in different historical periods perceived and represented the human form. Seeing Through Clothes published in 1978 is Hollander's most celebrated and influential work, presenting an extended and original argument about the relationship between clothing and the perception of the nude human body in Western visual culture. The central thesis of the book is that our perception of the unclothed human body is not natural or universal but is fundamentally shaped by the conventions of dress prevailing in any given historical period. Hollander argues that artists representing the nude body have always done so through the filter of contemporary clothing conventions, so that the idealized nude figures of any given era reflect the silhouettes, proportions, and aesthetic values embodied in the fashionable dress of that same period. This argument, developed with considerable care and supported by extensive engagement with works of art from across Western history, represented a genuinely original contribution to both art history and the history of dress, challenging assumptions about the naturalness of bodily perception and revealing the extent to which even our most apparently unmediated responses to the human form are culturally and historically conditioned. The book moves through Western art history from the medieval period through the twentieth century, examining how changing fashions in dress have shaped the representation of the body in painting and sculpture across different periods and cultural contexts. Hollander's readings of individual works of art are detailed and persuasive, grounding her broader theoretical argument in specific and carefully observed visual analysis that gives the book its scholarly weight and credibility. The writing style is intellectually rigorous but accessible, reflecting Hollander's awareness that her subject matter, while deserving serious analytical attention, also has an inherent interest and appeal that extends well beyond a purely academic readership. The book has remained in print and continued to find readers since its original publication, establishing itself as a genuinely influential work in the overlapping fields of art history, fashion history, and the cultural history of the body. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st. First edition thus. Softcover. Published NY: Avon, 1980, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, xvi+504pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Very good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.