Wiener Chic (eBook)

A Locational History of Vienna Fashion

Susan Ingram (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
200 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-215-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Vienna may not be synonymous with fashion like its metropolitan counterparts Paris and Milan, but it is a fashionable city, one that historically has been structured by changing fashions and fashionable appearances. Like the Litfasaule in Orson Welles's 1949 urban noir masterpiece The Third Man, into which Harry Lime escapes in order to avoid capture and which hapless visitors today presume are merely surfaces for advertising, there are many overlooked aspects of Vienna's distinct style and attitude. By focusing on fashion, Wiener Chic narrates Vienna's history through an interpretation of the material dimensions of Viennese cultural life - from architecture to arts festivals to the urban fabric of street chic. The first book that connects Vienna and fashion with urban theory, Wiener Chic draws on material that is virtually unknown in an English-language context to give readers an insider's vantage point on an under-appreciated European fashion capital.

Autor

lt;p>Susan Ingram is Associate Professor at York University, where she is affiliated with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact. Before moving to York, she was a Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and she has also taught in Germany and Poland. Publications such as Zarathustra’s Sisters: Women’s Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History and a series of co-edited volumes on the mutually constitutive crosscultural constructions of Central Europe and North America reflect her interest in the institutions of European cultural modernity.

Inhalt

Introduction: Vienna’s Culture of Appearance 

Part I: Chic Formations: The Cinematically Historical Underpinnings of Vienna’s Urban Imaginary 

Chapter 1: Baroque Chic: Fashioning Courtly Spaces 

Chapter 2: Ringstrasse Chic: Vienna Moderns 

Chapter 3: Prolo Chic 

Chapter 4: Ausländer Chic 

Part II: Staging Fashion in Vienna

Chapter 5: Museum Chic 

Chapter 6: Designer Chic 

Conclusion: Vienna Now, Not Never

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2014
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Susan Ingram
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-215-7 / 1783202157
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-215-7 / 9781783202157