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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