books by Anne Hollander

books by Anne Hollander

books:

Anne Hollander

Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (Kodansha Globe)

Anne Hollander

Kodansha Globe, 1995

What We Wore & Why, From Fashion's Birth to the Modern.
"Sex and Suits" traces the evolution of dress, in men and women, from the abandonment of traditional dress and the adoption of "fashion" in Western Europe of the late Middle Ages until just a decade ago. Author Anne Hollander is an art historian who chooses to view ...

Fabric of Vision
Anne Hollander

National Gallery London, 2002

This beautifully illustrated and innovative book examines how artists have used clothing and drapery-real and imagined, sacred and secular-as elements in their paintings to give emphasis and emotional force to their figures. All kinds of draped cloth, from austere dress to billowing draperies, become in the hands of a gifted artist a dramatic and ...

Seeing Through Clothes

Anne Hollander

University of California Press, 1993

A triple entendre
1. Seing through the clothes to the underlying anatomy and how this time specific anatomy was handled. Pregnancy an interesting challenge. 2. Seeing through the clothes the statement clothes are making. Glory, nobility, godliness, but mostly invidious comparisons in ...

From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist ...

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

An excellent companion to The Black Book of Communism
But unlike the Black Book, which derives most of its information from recently accessible Soviet archives and other sources, this emotionally charged tome relies on the accounts of victims themselves, which makes it even more damning in my view. This book should ...

Feeding The Eye : Essays

Anne Hollander, 1999

Pleasurable
This woman knows how to write a book review! Most book reviews are rehashes of the book itself--a book report not a book review. Ann Hollander possesses a dazzling storehouse of knowledge about visual art and is able to bring far ranging comparisons to her reviews. ...

Sex & Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
Anne Hollander

Diane Pub Co, 1994

An argument for the value of modern fashion as sexual express., with the tailored suit as its strongest example. Dress was equally showy for men & women until the late 18th century, when natural simplicity & understatement became fashionable, but for men's clothes only. After that, obvious sexual display in dress was left to women. Hollander shows ...

Woman in the Mirror: 1945-2004

"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.", 2005

Female in the lens
Richard Avedon selected a portfolio of women he has photographed over the last 60 years for "Woman in the Mirror.". Here are 125 images ranging from 1946 (Zazi, a street performer in Rome) to 2004, the year Avedon died. Some of the images have been published but many ...

Art Journal: Summer 1981, Volume 41, Number 2: Edward Hopper Symposium at the Whitney of American Art
Linda Nochlin, Anne Coffin Hanson, ...

The College Art Association of America, Inc., 1981

Articles: "Editor's Statement" by Gail Levin; "Edward Hopper: Plates"; "Six Who Knew Edward Hopper: Lloyd Goodrich, John Clancy, Helen Hayes, Raphael Soyer, Brian O'Doherty, James Thomas Flexner"; "Edward Hopper and the Imagery of Alienation" by Linda Nochlin; "Edward Hopper, American Meaning and French Craft" by Anne Coffin Hanson; "Artists' ...