book reviews
Fashioning Fashion: European dress in detail 1700-1915 Sharon Sadako Takeda and Kaye Durland Spilker, Prestel, £36
Providing a rich visual history of fashion’s evolution between the ‘Age of the Enlightenment’ to the First World War, the authors document the changing fashions over a period of more than two hundred years. Many examples of both men’s, women’s and children’s garments can be found here, showing the luxurious textiles, embroidery, tailoring and trimming skills that were carried out with such fi nesse.
Impressionism Ingo F. Walther, Taschen, £34.99
The history of Impressionism is presented in two volumes that focus on the effect that this genre of painting has had around the world. The fi rst volume focuses on France, where the movement evolved in the 19th century. The second volume examines how the movement infl uenced painting in the western world, including Belgium, Italy and Britain. A dictionary of Impressionism, containing bibliographies and biographical data about major impressionist painters is a valuable appendix.
The Music of Painting Peter Vergo, Phaidon, £39.95
Documenting and researching the intriguing connections between music and the visual arts has been Professor Vergo’s focus in his previous books. In this, his second book on the subject, he focuses on how music connects with the development of Modernism
from the mid-19th century. Using critical and philosophical sources, Vergo adds his own in-depth analysis to provide a fascinating and comprehensive examination of a topic that, until now, has received little critical attention.
The Andy Warhol Diaries By Andy Warhol, edited by Pat Hackett, Penguin Classics, £20
Every weekday for the fi nal 11 years of his life Andy Warhol would call editor Pat Hackett to ‘diarise’ his life. These thoughts, summaries and even daily expenses are faithfully detailed in 1,123 pages of this hefty book. Warhol talks surprisingly little about his art and inspirations, instead mostly summing up his social life from 1976-87. With brutal honesty he recounts parties, exhibition openings and gossip about the celebrities he associated with such as Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Michael Douglas, Tony Curtis and many more. Raw, cutting and revelling in sex, drugs and pop art, this is a book for anyone interested in one of the kings of pop art and his world.
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