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Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

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||14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| This book title is misleading|By Avid reader|This book is entitled "Dandies," and, with the monocled and waistcoated Lady Troubridge on the cover, one expects an investigation on dandyism in the Western sense. Sadly, this is not the case. This book should have been named, "Sartorial display: a look at dressing up across genders and cultures." It could have been given a number| ||"Should be of great interest to any civilized person—the dandy, a mutation of taste, is not definable. The book offers a group of excellent essays that attempt to pin it down."-Alex Katz

|"Both lively and scholarly, this is the collection man

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 hi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture   |  From NYU Press. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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