Fashion in European Art

Justine De Young is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. Her research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century art and literature, visual and material culture, modernism and fashion. She has written widely on art and fashion, notably for the 2012-3 exhibition, 'Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity'.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Addressing Fashion in Art by Justine De Young1. From the Studio to the Street: Modelling Neoclassical Dress in Art and Life by Amelia Rauser2. Parures, Pashminas, and Portraiture, or, How Joséphine Bonaparte Fashioned the Napoleonic Empire by Heather Belnap Jensen 3. Temporalities of Costume and Fashion in Art of the Romantic Period by Susan L. Siegfried 4. Desire and Dress: Rossetti’s Erotics of the Unclassifiable and Working-Class Models by Julie Codell 5. Mourning for Paris: The Art and Politics of Dress after ‘l’année terrible’ (1870-71) by Justine De Young6. Mannequin and Monkey in Seurat’s Grande Jatte (1884) by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen 7. 'But the coat is the picture’: Issues of Masculine Fashioning, Politics and Sexual Identity in Portraiture in England c. 1890-1900 by Andrew Stephenson 8. Silencing Fashion in Early Twentieth-Century Feminism: The Sartorial Story of Suffrage by Kimberly Wahl 9. Puppets, Patterns, and ‘Proper Gentlemen’: Men’s Fashion in Anton Räderscheidt’s New-Objectivity Paintings by Änne SöllNotes on the ContributorsSelected Bibliography

The book is a welcome addition to any library on nineteenth century European dress. It underscores the importance of dress and how its study can enrich our understanding of art and culture. It is gratifying to see academics in many disciplines writing on the textile and fashion arts bringing their understanding, research methodologies, and perspectives to this endlessly fascinating subject.