Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

by Nancy J. Troy

Book Overview

In Couture Culture , Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262201402
• ISBN13: 9780262201407
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Pivotal, Innovative, Transdisciplinary Endeavor

An early breakthrough toward a new "way of knowing" or paradigm shift in the history of arts and culture. I suspect that Troy's early work in this vein will be understood, not just as a harbinger, but also as an essential building block for a foundation of the future--a yet-to-be articulated, academic approach, as well as an even broader way of understanding the world through a lens that we now imperfectly refer to as the humanities (because the fast pace of innovation in media, materials and design has already begun to spur an implosion of our traditional definitions of academic disciplines and modes of inquiry).