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Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

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Fashion & AccessoriesGeneral SociologyMen's Studies

ISBN10: 081472695X
ISBN13: 9780814726952
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these were not the only dandies. On the contrary, art historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists identify unrecognized dandies flourishing among early 19th century Native Americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, throughout the African-American diaspora, among women, and in the art world.

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