The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World by Gernerd, Elisabeth
The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World by Gernerd, Elisabeth

The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World

From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century...
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Author: Elisabeth Gernerd
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The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World by Gernerd, Elisabeth

The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World

CHF 80.50
The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World by Gernerd, Elisabeth

The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World

CHF 80.50
Author: Elisabeth Gernerd
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created her shape, but expressed her character, sociability, fashionability, and even political allegiances. These so-called ephemeral flights of fashion were not peripheral and supplementary, but highly charged artefacts, acting as cultural currency in contemporary society.

The Modern Venus highlights the significance of these elements of a woman's wardrobe in 1770s and 1780s Britain and the Atlantic World, and shows how they played their part in transforming fashionable dress when this was expanding to new heights and volumes. Dissecting the female silhouette into regions of the body and types of dress and shifting away from a broad-sweeping stylistic evolution, this book explores these potent players within the woman's armoury. Marrying material, archival and visual approaches to dress history, and drawing on a rich range of sources - including painted portraiture, satirical prints, diaries, memoirs - The Modern Venus unpacks dress as a medium and mediator in women's lives. It demonstrates the importance of these overlooked garments in defining not just a woman's silhouette, but also her social and cultural situation, and thereby shapes our understanding of late 18th-century life.

With over 125 color images, The Modern Venus is a remarkable resource for scholars, students and costume lovers alike.

Author: Elisabeth Gernerd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 11/16/2023
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781350293373

About the Author
Elisabeth Gernerd is a historian of 18th-century dress, art and material culture. She is an associate lecturer at the University of Glasgow and former postdoctoral fellow at Historic Royal Palaces, UCLA, and the Paul Mellon Centre.


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