Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance (Costume Society of America Series)

Between 1678 and 1710, Parisian presses printed hundreds of images of elegantly attired men and women dressed in the latest mode, and posed to display every detail of their clothing and accessories. Long used to illustrate dress of the period, these fashion prints have been taken at face value and used uncritically. Drawing on perspectives from art history, costume history, French literature, museum conservation and theatrical costuming, the essays in this volume explore what the prints represent and what they reveal about fashion and culture in the seventeenth century. With more than one hundred illustrations, Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV constitutes not only an innovative analysis of fashion engravings, but also one of the most comprehensive collections of seventeenth-century fashion images 04 Activeable in print. Title Page, Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Fashion and Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV 1. The Fashion Print: An Ambiguous Object 2. Fashioning Fashionability 3. The Cris de Paris in the LACMA Recueil des modes 4. Fashions in Prints: Considering the Recueil des modes as an Album of Prints 5. Fashion as Concept and Ethic in Seventeenth-Century France 6. The Fashion Run Seen from Backstage: Saint-Simon¬タルs Memoirs of Louis XIV¬タルs Court 7. Louis XIV: King of Fashion? 8. Oriental Connections: Merchant Adventurers and the Transmission of Cultural Concepts 9. The LACMA Recueil des modes 10. Fashion Illustration from the Reign of Louis XIV: A Technical Study of the Paper and Colorants Used in the LACMA Recueil des modes 11. Performing Fashion 12. Recreating an Entrᅢᄅe, a Minuet, and a Chaconne 13. Recreating a Grand Habit 14. A Seventeenth-Century Gown Rediscovered: Work in Progress Selected Bibliography Contributors Index Image Plates Analyzing French Fashion Prints And What These Images Represent And Reveal About The Fashion And Culture Of The Seventeenth-century-- The Fashion Print -- Contextualizing The Fashion Print -- The Fashion Print As A Historical Resource. Edited By Kathryn Norberg And Sandra Rosenbaum. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 247-258) And Index. ""Analyzing French fashion prints and what these images represent and reveal about the fashion and culture of the seventeenth-century."--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher