Unmentionables :a brief history of underwear

• 作者: Benson, Elaine,
• 其他作者: Esten, John,
• 出版:
• 稽核項: 157 pages :illustrations (some color) ;25 cm.
• 標題: Underwear History. , Underwear , Underwear Social aspects. , History. , Social aspects. , Underwear Pictorial works.
• ISBN: 0684822660 , 9780684822662
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155). In the beginning -- On a pedestal -- Redesigning the body -- My cup runneth over -- Gods and goddesses -- Sport, dance, health, fitness -- Fast forward -- The male animal -- Aberration -- Freedom.
• 摘要: Unmentionables traces the history of underwear from its earliest appearance around the frozen loins of a 5,300-year-old Tyrolean iceman to its up-to-the-minute status as fashion's new outerwear. Using fine art, photography, film stills, cartoons, and advertisements to tell the story visually, Elaine Benson also goes on to describe the social history and psychological underpinnings of a subject that holds an incomparably powerful fascination for all of us. Tying the images and text together is the extraordinary design of John Esten, who manages to show the subject's unexpected connections and the contradictions between past and present, fantasy and real life. Here is a 1928 photo of a corseted Mae West juxtaposed with a 1990 photo of Madonna in her Jean Paul Gaultier cone-shaped cups. From a 1526 painting of Adam and Eve, to a 1958 Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of Elvis Presley weighing in for the army, to a 1995 Herb Ritts photo for a Hugo Boss European advertising campaign, Unmentionables is the first book devoted to this playful, illuminating, and inevitably stimulating subject, whose appeal is gender-free and universal.
• 系統號: 005327953
• 資料類型: 圖書
• 讀者標籤: 需登入
• 引用網址: 複製連結
• 目前引用數