Fashion and Art
Adam Geczy (Editor) and Vicki Karaminas (Editor) · Berg · January 2012
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For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions, and ideas.
Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorisation. As an attempt to theorise the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world's foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art-fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media.
Original and inspiring, this book will not only secure art-fashion as a discrete area of study, but also suggest new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination. Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies, and related fields.
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