Sargent and Fashion

Sargent and Fashion explores the dynamic relationship of painting and dress — from portraits and performance, gender expression and the New Woman, to the pull of tradition and the excitement of new ideas.

"The coat is the picture," John Singer Sargent exclaimed to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy overcoat ever more tightly around his sitter's slender figure. Sought-after by sitters for his ability to present to the world flattering and engaging likenesses, Sargent was simultaneously pursuing his own artistic vision.

Rather than holding up a mirror to contemporary fashion, Sargent made fashion a part of his artistic repertoire. He often chose what his sitters wore, pinned their garments, or draped fabric around them, all with a view to creating confections to be recorded on canvas through his unrivalled artistic gifts.

With contributions from many of the leading thinkers on Sargent and his world, and lavish reproductions of major portraits and exquisite costumes of the period, this publication offers a vital new perspective on one of the most famous and fashionable artists of all time.

Contributor: Erica E. Hirshler (Edited by), Caroline Corbeau-Parsons (Associate editor), James Finch (Associate editor), Pamela A. Parmal (Associate editor), Anna Reynolds (Contributions by), Dominic Green (Contributions by), Elaine Kilmurray (Contributions by), Rebecca Hellen (Contributions by), Richard Ormond (Contributions by), Paul Fisher (Contributions by), Frances Fowle (Contributions by), Andrew Stephenson (Contributions by), Elizabeth Prettejohn (Contributions by), Stephanie L. Herdrich (Contributions by)

Pages: 248

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