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Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV : Interpreting the Art of Elegance, Hardback Book

Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV : Interpreting the Art of Elegance Hardback

Edited by Kathryn Norberg, Sandra Rosenbaum

Part of the Costume Society of America: Studying and Shaping World Dress series

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Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories.

Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically.

Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century. With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images available in print.  

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