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About this book
Gen Doy investigates the hitherto neglected meanings of drapery and the draped body in visual culture. The baroque and the classical are her subjects, as are Freud's "Gravida", Clerambault's writings and photographs of draped figures, the fetishistic play between veiling and revealing and the meanings of drapery in recent art, from Christo's wrapped Reichstag to the impact of the modern women's movement on fine art practice. Yet she also finds and focuses on the draped body now in places like Algeria and Kosovo where drapery's connotations are no longer those of purity and civilized elegance but of barbarism, poverty, and savage death.
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Information
Representations
of
Drapery
29
He
adds
that
draperies
should
be
appropriate
for
the
age
and
status
of
the
wearer
and
the
antique
provides
a
good
model
for
draperies
pressed
against
the
body
by
a
breeze.
In
subsequent
sections,
Leonardo
touches
on
a
subject
which
many
later
writers
on
drapery
also
mention
–
the
need
to
avoid
modern
fashion
in
favour
of
more
generalised
clothing.
According
to
Leonardo,
modern
fashion
not
only
looks
stupid,
but
can
actually
damage
the
body.
Artists
should
2.
Leonardo
da
Vinci,
Drapery
Study
for
a
Seated
Figure
,
grey-brown
tempera
with
white
highlights
painted
on
prepared
grey
canvas,
13.9
x
22
cm,
1470s(?),
RF41905,
Louvre,
Paris,
photo
R.M.N.
Michèle
Bellot.
Insert
illustration
2:
152
x
230
mm
reduced
to
79
x
120
mm
Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Representations of Drapery: an overview
- 2. Commodification, Cloth and Drapery
- 3. Fetishism, Drapery and Veils
- 4. The Fold: Baroque and Postmodern Draperies
- 5. Drapery and Contemporary Art
- 6. The Draped Body and News Photography
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index