Dandies : fashion and finesse in art and culture / edited by Susan Fillin-Yeh.

Other author Fillin-Yeh, Susan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The layered look: Coco Chanel and contagious celebrity / Rhonda K. Garelick -- "Indian dandies": sartorial finesse and self-presentation along the Columbia River, 1790-1855 / Robert E. Moore -- Dandyism and abstraction in the universe defined by Newton / Carter Ratcliff -- Dandies, marginality and modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, and other cross-dressers / Susan Fillin-Yeh -- "The dandy in me": Romaine Brook's 1923 portraits / Joe Lucchesi -- Claude Cahun, Dandy provocateuse / Jennifer Blessing -- Cross-dressing and the crossroads: mimicry and ambivalence in Yoruba masked performance / Kimberly Miller -- Sartor Africanus / Richard J. Powell -- Twiggy and Trotsky: or, what the Soviet dandy will be wearing this next five-year plan / Mark Allen Svede -- Epilogue: Quentin Crisp, the last Dandy? / Rhonda K. Garelick.
Local noteLittle-325619--305131026214S
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00012369
ISBN081472695X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814726968 (pbk. : alk. paper)