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Artwear : fashion and anti-fashion / Melissa Leventon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Thames & Hudson, [2005 (2006 printing)]Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780500285374
  • 9780500285374
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Putting artwear in context -- Artwear in the U.S.A. -- Models, methods, and meanings -- Artwear outside the U.S.A. -- Stretching the boundries: conceptual and performance pieces
Summary: This text sets the context for wearable art as the latest in the long line of aesthetic dress reforms that began with the Arts and Crafts movement. It goes on to trace the history of the art form as it developed out of the hippy styles and studio fibre art of the 1960s and 1970s until today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Putting artwear in context -- Artwear in the U.S.A. -- Models, methods, and meanings -- Artwear outside the U.S.A. -- Stretching the boundries: conceptual and performance pieces

This text sets the context for wearable art as the latest in the long line of aesthetic dress reforms that began with the Arts and Crafts movement. It goes on to trace the history of the art form as it developed out of the hippy styles and studio fibre art of the 1960s and 1970s until today.

Originally published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor

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