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About the Book

Since the advent of cinema, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion. Artists now create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film and tape, on the dance stage, or in the ever changing, ever moving medium of clothes. In this remarkable collection, Anne Hollander ranges over art of the twentieth and other centuries with unusual depth of historical insight to explore these rich, diverse visual treasures and the underlying themes that connect them.

About the Author

Anne Hollander is an independent art historian, critic, and historian of dress. A Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and former President of PEN American Center, she is the author of three other books, Sex and Suits (1994), Moving Pictures (1989), and Seeing through Clothes (California, 1993).

Table of Contents

Preface

I Some Modern Legends
1 Isadora Duncan
2 Franz Kafka
3 Gabrielle Chanel
4 Vaslav Nijinsky
5 Martha Graham
6 Alix Gres
7 George Balanchine
8 Henri Cartier-Bresson
9 Simone de Beauvoir
10 Yves St. Laurent

II Modern Arts: Dress
11 Accounting for Fashion
12 The Decorated Body
13 The Tight Corset
14 Kimono
15 Men in Black
16 Fashion and Image
17 Androgyny
18 Transvestism

III Modern Arts: Film
19 Chaplin
20 Silent Movies
21 UiJman 5 Movies
22 Garbo
23 Elizabeth Taylor
24 Little Women in the Movies

IV Other Arts, Other Legends
25 Little Women: The Book
26 Mary Magdalen
27 The Power of Images
28 The Culture of Flowers
29 Caspar David Friedrich
30 Schapiro on Impressionism
31 Titian and UiJmen

Index

Reviews

"Only a learned and daring intelligence could produce these dazzling essays on clothes, painting, literature, movies, and much more."—Elizabeth Hardwick