Rebecca Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rebecca Arnold lectures on Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Kodak Ensemble
Walter Dorwin Teague’s design for the casing of the 1928 Kodak Ensemble brought together the latest camera technology with contemporary fashion. Shaped like a clutch bag, when opened the case contained not just a camera, but also a compact, lipstick, and mirror. Available in different colors and marketed to women, it represented connections between looking, seeing, being, and wearing, which expose shifts in 1920s modernity and femininity. This ar…
Matthew Riley and Anthony D. Smith, Nation and Classical Music from Handel to Copland
Fashion in Ruins
Using Cecil Beaton’s photographs of bombed London as a starting point, this essay examines fashion’s representation in 1940s London, during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. It focuses on fashion’s paradoxical status during a time of austerity and loss. Beaton’s images highlight contrasts between luxury, escape and desire, and the effects of war on the urban landscape, and the city’s inhabitants. Photographed against the ruins of …
Ryan Minor, Choral Fantasies
Reflections on Dress
A Revolution of the Mind
Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 296 pp. £24.95/$35.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0691142005 Ten years ago, in a review of Jonathan Israel's Radical
Herrera, Carolina
Movement and Modernity
This article considers the importance of movement to the representation and understanding of New York sportswear fashions during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines the cultural contexts of the first decades of the twentieth century, which spawned New York department store ranges and designers including Claire McCardell and Mildred Orrick. The sportswear they created crystallized ideals of modern ready-to-wear, which was designed to be streamlined a…
Fernando Delgado and Samuel Bourdin, Exhibit A, Guy Bourdin
(2004). Fernando Delgado and Samuel Bourdin, Exhibit A, Guy Bourdin. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 109-111
Looking American
(2002). Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe's Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s. Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 45-60
The Brutalized Body
British Fashion Design, Rag Trade or Image Industry? , Angela McRobbie
Heroin Chic
Looking American
(2002). Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe's Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s. Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 45-60
Heroin Chic
The Kodak Ensemble
Walter Dorwin Teague’s design for the casing of the 1928 Kodak Ensemble brought together the latest camera technology with contemporary fashion. Shaped like a clutch bag, when opened the case contained not just a camera, but also a compact, lipstick, and mirror. Available in different colors and marketed to women, it represented connections between looking, seeing, being, and wearing, which expose shifts in 1920s modernity and femininity. This ar…
Fashion in Ruins
Using Cecil Beaton’s photographs of bombed London as a starting point, this essay examines fashion’s representation in 1940s London, during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. It focuses on fashion’s paradoxical status during a time of austerity and loss. Beaton’s images highlight contrasts between luxury, escape and desire, and the effects of war on the urban landscape, and the city’s inhabitants. Photographed against the ruins of …
Movement and Modernity
This article considers the importance of movement to the representation and understanding of New York sportswear fashions during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines the cultural contexts of the first decades of the twentieth century, which spawned New York department store ranges and designers including Claire McCardell and Mildred Orrick. The sportswear they created crystallized ideals of modern ready-to-wear, which was designed to be streamlined a…
The Brutalized Body
British Fashion Design, Rag Trade or Image Industry? , Angela McRobbie
The Brutalized Body
British Fashion Design, Rag Trade or Image Industry? , Angela McRobbie
Heroin Chic
Looking American
(2002). Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe's Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s. Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 45-60
Fernando Delgado and Samuel Bourdin, Exhibit A, Guy Bourdin
(2004). Fernando Delgado and Samuel Bourdin, Exhibit A, Guy Bourdin. Fashion Theory: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 109-111
Movement and Modernity
This article considers the importance of movement to the representation and understanding of New York sportswear fashions during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines the cultural contexts of the first decades of the twentieth century, which spawned New York department store ranges and designers including Claire McCardell and Mildred Orrick. The sportswear they created crystallized ideals of modern ready-to-wear, which was designed to be streamlined a…
Herrera, Carolina
A Revolution of the Mind
Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 296 pp. £24.95/$35.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0691142005 Ten years ago, in a review of Jonathan Israel's Radical
Reflections on Dress
Ryan Minor, Choral Fantasies
Fashion in Ruins
Using Cecil Beaton’s photographs of bombed London as a starting point, this essay examines fashion’s representation in 1940s London, during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. It focuses on fashion’s paradoxical status during a time of austerity and loss. Beaton’s images highlight contrasts between luxury, escape and desire, and the effects of war on the urban landscape, and the city’s inhabitants. Photographed against the ruins of …
Matthew Riley and Anthony D. Smith, Nation and Classical Music from Handel to Copland
The Kodak Ensemble
Walter Dorwin Teague’s design for the casing of the 1928 Kodak Ensemble brought together the latest camera technology with contemporary fashion. Shaped like a clutch bag, when opened the case contained not just a camera, but also a compact, lipstick, and mirror. Available in different colors and marketed to women, it represented connections between looking, seeing, being, and wearing, which expose shifts in 1920s modernity and femininity. This ar…
Art (10 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)