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The Bikini: A Cultural History

Door Patrick Alac

Categorie	Mode, Kostuums & Verzorging
Boeknummer	#327071-MC6
Titel	The Bikini: A Cultural History
Auteur	Alac, Patrick
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Parlston Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	1859957951
ISBN13	9781859957950
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Reart borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking with decades of boring conformity, Reart dared to 'undress' women's bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed -- albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was many times reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress, all of whom featured in bikinis that accentuated their own gloriously curvaceous contours. More than a bathing costume, the bikini made i... (Lees verder)ts own contribution during the 1970s to the sexual revolution, to the changing relationship between men and women in general. This book investigates the history of the bikini as a way of noting the change in the perception of women by society, as women have regained responsibility for the way they look and laid claim once more to full sexual equality. A wealth of pictures throughout the book illustrates this womanly progression step-by-step over more than 50 years.
Pagina's	215
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 20,00

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