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Title: AMERICAN WOMAN
FASHIONING A NATIONAL IDENTITY
By: Andrew Bolton
Format: Paperback

List price: £14.99


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ISBN 10: 0300165536
ISBN 13: 9780300165531
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 May, 2010
Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art S.
Pages: 72
Description: Examines how the ideal of the American Woman evolved from ''Old World'' ideas of elegance into a specifically American sensibility. This title also explores the impact of the image of the American Woman on haute couture, revealing how the ''slender American Diana'' displaced the ''rounded French Venus'' as the prevailing archetype of beauty.
Illustrations: 125 colour illustrations
Returns: Returnable
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