The Art of Parisian Chic
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-45474-3 (ISBN)
French societal expectations and beauty ideals shaped how women were seen and how they chose to present themselves in public – whether on the street, in a photograph, or in a portrait on the walls of the annual Paris Salon. On Paris’s broad new boulevards and in its public parks and theaters, women dressed to impress anonymous strangers as well as their friends. They even circulated aspirational photographs of themselves. Looking at a rich array of visual sources – from portraits to modern-life paintings, and from photographs to fashion plates – Justine De Young reveals how women were seen, how they aspired to be seen, and how they navigated public life in Second Empire and Belle Époque Paris.
This book considers how fashionable feminine “types” made famous in books, caricatures, and paintings created a visual lexicon and stylistic guide for women. Men and women alike relied on these types – cocotte (mistress), jeune veuve (young widow), amazone (independent equestrienne), demoiselle de magasin (shopgirl), and Parisienne (chic Parisian woman) – to judge the class, character, morality, and worth of strangers. With a rich set of illustrations from the Impressionist canon and beyond, The Art of Parisian Chic shows how modern women used fashion and these stereotypes to construct and reinvent their identities.
Justine De Young is Associate Professor and Chairperson, History of Art, at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York (US). She previously taught art and fashion history at Harvard, Wellesley, Lesley, and Northwestern universities in the US. She is editor of Fashion in European Art (Bloomsbury, 2019) and the founding editor of the Fashion History Timeline website.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 – Introduction: The Art of Parisian Chic
Chapter 2 – La Cocotte – The Extravagant Mistress
Chapter 3 – La Jeune Veuve – The Young Widow
Chapter 4 – L’Amazone – The Independent Equestrienne
Chapter 5 – La Demoiselle de magasin – The Savvy Shopgirl
Chapter 6 – La Parisienne – The Symbol of Paris
Chapter 7 – Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 150 colour illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 188 x 244 mm |
| Gewicht | 983 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-45474-5 / 1350454745 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-45474-3 / 9781350454743 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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