Peter Wollen
Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion
Berkeley:
University of California Press in association with The Hayward Gallery,
1998.
120 pp.; 99 color ills.; 22 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(1853321834)
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Until recently, accounts of 20th-century art history have failed to see the relevance of fashion for their object of study. Typically, fashion was regarded as superficial, fleeting, and feminized; therefore, the interest in clothing design manifested by modernist artists from Henry Van de Velde to the Russian Constructivists has customarily been presented as an effort at rationalization or reform, and as a rejection of commercial dress design as practiced by such successful couturiers of the...