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The surreal body : fetish and fashion
- Author
- Wood, Ghislaine.
- Title
- The surreal body : fetish and fashion / Ghislaine Wood.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London : V & A, 2007.
- Description
- 96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015576019&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA <Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015576019&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-94) and index.
- Contents
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- The mannequin
- The fetish
- Bodies transformed : surrealist women
- The shop window
- Surreal fashion
- Dali's jewels
- The dream of Venus.
- Review
- "The representation of the body, and particularly the female body, provides a recurring theme through the displays, exhibitions and commercial activities of the Surrealists. In fashion and fashion photography, the human form was manipulated, fetishized and irrevocably changed. Ghislaine Wood surveys the manifold ways in which Surrealism influenced fashion, from the unsettling 'Street of Mannequins' at the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme to Elsa Schiaparelli's extraordinary 'Skeleton' dress, and Salvador Dali's opulent anthropomorphic jewellery."--Jacket.
- Subject headings
- Surrealism. Human figure in art. Fashion and art. Fashion photography. Fetishism in art. Human body--Symbolic aspects.