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Fabric of vision : dress and drapery in painting / Anne Hollander.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : National Gallery ; [New Haven, Conn.?] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2002.Description: 207 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 1857099079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 758.9391 HOL
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 758.9391 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100309781

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This illustrated volume examines how artists have used clothing and drapery - real and imagined, sacred and secular - as elements in their paintings to give emphasis and emotional force to their figures.

Exhibition at the National Gallery, London, June 19, 2002-Sept. 8, 2002.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Author's Acknowledgements (p. 6)
  • Foreword (p. 7)
  • Introduction (p. 9)
  • I Cloth of Honour (p. 13)
  • II Liberated Draperies (p. 37)
  • III Sensuality, Sanctity, Zeal (p. 57)
  • IV High Artifice (p. 79)
  • V Romantic Simplicity: Women (p. 101)
  • VI Romantic Simplicity: Men (p. 119)
  • VII Restraint and Display (p. 139)
  • VIII Nude and Mode (p. 153)
  • IX Woman as Dress (p. 165)
  • X Form and Feeling (p. 177)
  • List of Exhibited Works (p. 199)
  • List of Lenders (p. 204)
  • Photographic Credits (p. 205)
  • Index (p. 206)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Anne Hollander is an independent art historian, critic and historian of dress

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