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

This is an exciting book, excellent in its scope and rigour, immaculately edited and richly imaginative. It proposes a new approach to fashion research concerning dress, art and the body.