Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
by Koda, Harold
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 168 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from December 6, 2001 through April 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. This exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to see fashion as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body - neck, shoulders, bust, waist, hips, and feet - have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and often deliberate physical deformation. Costumes in the exhibition - ranging from a 16th-century-style iron corset to Jean Paul Gaultier's notorious 'Madonna' bustier - [are] augmented by anthropological and ethnographic examples and by paintings, prints, and drawings, including caricatures by Cruikshank, Daumier, Rowlandson, and Vernet." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.
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- Title
- Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed
- Author
- Koda, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300103123
- ISBN 13
- 9780300103120
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Media / Fabrics & Textiles; Design / Fashion & Costume; Movements / Body Art;
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