Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion by Chris Townsend

Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion by Chris Townsend

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Raising questions about identity, style, culture, commerce and beauty, this volume reveals the ambivalent relationship between art and fashion and shows the visual results as artists both succumb to fashion's powerful lure and at the same time recoil from it.

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Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion by Chris Townsend

Raising questions about identity, style, culture, commerce and beauty, this volume reveals the ambivalent relationship between art and fashion and shows the visual results as artists both succumb to fashion's powerful lure and at the same time recoil from it.
Chris Townsend is a writer, independent curator and lecturer in media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. His previous publications include the award-winning Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking, plus his new book The Art of Tracey Emin (with Mandy Merck), which will be published by Thames & Hudson this autumn.
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ISBN 13 9780500283837
ISBN 10 0500283834
Title Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion
Author Chris Townsend
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published 2002-10-07
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.