Moda

2017 · ref. 211203 — New York: Thames & Hudson 2017. Pictorial boards 191 pages illustrations chiefly colour; 35 cm. Translated into English from the original French book Androgyne: une image de mode et sa memoire. Firm binding clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In January 2011 Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture runway show ended with the image of a willowy blonde bride in a diaphanous gown. The bride was a man and one of the first models to walk for both men's and women's collections. The event marked the start of a trend. 'This ad is gender neutral' proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; 'I resist definitions' announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith wearing a skirt. The art of Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau the writings of Oscar Wilde and the mystic Josephin Peladan prove that the turn of the previous century was as compelled by androgyny as this one. Patrick Mauries presents a cultural history of androgyny--accompanied by a striking selection of more than 120 images from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary fashion photography--drawing on the worlds of art and literature to give us a deeper understanding of the strange but timeless human drive to escape from defined categories." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Beneath the veil; 'A length of horsehair twine'; A body of ivory; The inverted body; Opposing anatomies; Life as a novel; Civilization and its discontented; An amphibious creature; Puer senilis; The 'Androgynosphinx'; Amazons; Flaming creatures; A certain Mr Fish. 'Ladies and Gentlemen . . . and others' The latest mode. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Collectible. Thames & Hudson Hardcover