Sanda Miller

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Images on the Page: A Fashion IconographyPaperback, 18 May 2023

Images on the Page: A Fashion Iconography
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Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published
18 May 2023
ISBN-10
1350216925
ISBN-13
9781350216921

Description

Fashion imagery has existed for hundreds of years and yet the methods used by scholars to understand it have remained mostly historical and descriptive. The belief informing these approaches may be that fashion imagery is designed for one purpose: to depict a garment and how to wear it. In this interdisciplinary book, Sanda Miller suggests a radical alternative to these well-practiced approaches, proposing that fashion imagery has stories to tell and meanings to uncover. The methodology she has developed is an iconography of fashion imagery, based on the same theory which has been key to the History of Art for centuries.

Applying Panofsky's theory of iconography to illustrations from books, magazines and fashion plates, as well as fashion photography and even live fashion events, Miller uncovers three levels of meaning: descriptive, secondary (or conventional) and tertiary or 'symbolic'. In doing so, she answers questions such as who is the model; what did people wear and why; and how did people live? She proves that fashion imagery, far from being purely descriptive, is ripe with meaning and can be used to shed light on society, class, culture and the history of dress.

Product Details

Author:
Sanda Miller
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 May 2023
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.57 cm
ISBN-10:
1350216925
ISBN-13:
9781350216921
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
296
Weight:
421.84 gm

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