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Infra-apparel / by Richard Martin and Harold Koda ; photographs by Neil Selkirk

Author
Martin, Richard (Richard Harrison)
Published
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [between 1900 and 1999?]
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1993]
New York : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Copyright Date
©1993
Physical Description
1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Additional Creators
Koda, Harold, Selkirk, Neil, Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.), and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Contents
Seductive Strata : The Emergence of Underwear -- Intimate Iconography : Art's Witness to Dressing -- Architectonic Experience : The Corset and Body Shape -- Secret Strategies : The Vocabulary of Undress -- Analytical Apparel : Deconstruction and Discovery in Contemporary Dress.
Summary
Seductive Strata: The Emergence of Underwear -- Intimate Iconography: Art's Witness to Dressing -- Architectonic Experience: The Corset and Body Shape -- Secret Strategies: The Vocabulary of Undress -- Analytical Apparel: Deconstruction and Discovery in Contemporary Dress.
"Infra-Apparel, the exhibition and the book that accompanies it, has had to search for its own name. There is not a signle world or descriptive phrase that fully signifies the phenomenon we seek to describe and the argument we are attempting to make. It is simplistic to offer our argument as structure disclosed, inside appearing on the outside, or externalization as a function of familiarity, yet all of these are approximations of parts of the argument. Jean Baudrillard has argued that fashion is exceptional within culture in its proclivity to propagate signs, some of substantive, others of scant meaning. The large signficance of the observation we make in Infra-Apparel through the exhibition and the publication in its introduction, many color illustrations, and five essays is the transaction that occurred from the eighteenth century to present between the intimate and personal and the social and public. Without consistent evolution, but with a fascinating persistence, clothing has sought to convey elements of boudoir privacy to the public domain. Morever, underwear can be perceived as the required interface between the body and clothing, but it can also constitute clothing's ultimate seduction. Function and finery meet with oppositional intensity in underwear and lingerie. Clothing is a principal means by which we negotiate between public and private realms"--Introduction, page 10.
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ISBN
0870996762 (pbk.)
9780870996764 (pbk.)
0810964309 (Abrams)
9780810964303 (Abrams)
Note
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Infra-apparel', held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 1, 1993, to August 8, 1993"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 121)
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