Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance

Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories. Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically. Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century. With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images 04 Activeable in print.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 09/01/2014
ISBN: 9780896728578
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 10.33h x 7.32w x 1.23d