Project name | Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed |
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Persons | Harold Koda |
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Period | 2001 |
URL | http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Beauty-Transformed-Harold-Koda/dp/0300091176 |
Tags | clothing, accessories, body, anthropology, sociology, art, history, book, haute couture, body, beautiful, |
Text | Throughout history, humans have used clothing and accessories to lift, squeeze, frame and pad the body. In Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, Harold Koda deftly weaves anthropology, sociology, art history, and haute couture into a lively survey of shifting notions of the body beautiful. Divided into five sections |