| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: New Strategies for a Theory of Dandies / Susan Fillin-Yeh -- 1. The Layered Look: Coco Chanel and Contagious Celebrity / Rhonda K. Garelick -- 2. "Indian Dandies": Sartorial Finesse and Self-Presentation along the Columbia River, 1790-1855 / Robert E. Moore -- 3. Dandyism and Abstraction in a Universe Defined by Newton / Carter Ratcliff -- 4. Dandies, Marginality, and Modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and Other Cross-Dressers / Susan Fillin-Yeh -- 5. "The Dandy in Me": Romaine Brooks's 1923 Portraits / Joe Lucchesi -- 6. Claude Cahun, Dandy Provocateuse / Jennifer Blessing -- 7. Cross-Dressing at the Crossroads: Mimicry and Ambivalence in Yoruba Masked Performance / Kimberly Miller -- 8. Sartor Africanus / Richard J. Powell -- 9. Twiggy and Trotsky: Or, What the Soviet Dandy Will Be Wearing This Next Five-Year Plan / Mark Allen Svede -- Epilogue: Quentin Crisp: The Last Dandy? / Rhonda K. Garelick |
| 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 Nat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dandies -- History
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Men's clothing -- History
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Fashion -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Dandies.
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Fashion.
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Men's clothing.
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Dandy
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Dandyismus
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Geschichte
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Kleidung
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Mode
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Dandy's.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fillin-Yeh, Susan
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| ISBN |
9780814729212 |
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0814729215 |
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