Tailored for freedom : the artistic dress around 1900 in fashion, art, and society / edited by Ina Ewers-Schultz and Magdalena Holzhey ; with essays by Friederike Berger, Christian Brandstätter, Burcu Dogramaci, Ina Ewers-Schultz, Isa Fleischmann-Heck, Inga Ganzer, Juliane Hahn, Christiane Heiser, Magdalena Holzhey, Antje Neumann, Patricia Ober, Thorsten Scheer, and Karin Thönnissen.

Though often seen today as a mere expression of individuality, fashion around 1900 became synonymous with the physical and social emancipation of women. Reform movements at the turn of the century strove to achieve a unity of art and life, inspiring artists to experiment with how the design of women...

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Corporate Author: Krefelder Kunstmuseen (Germany) (Host institution)
Other Authors: Ewers-Schultz, Ina (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content)
Holzhey, Magdalena (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content)
Berger, Friederike (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Brandstätter, Christian (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Dogramaci, Burcu (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Fleischmann-Heck, Isa (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Ganzer, Inga, 1976- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Hahn, Juliane (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Heiser, Christiane, 1970- (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Neumann, Antje (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Ober, Patricia (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Scheer, Thorsten (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Thönnissen, Karin (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Published: Krefeld : Munich : Kunstmuseen Krefeld ; Hirmer, [2018]
Subjects:
Women's clothing > Europe > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Dresses > Europe > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Fashion and art > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Fashion > Social aspects > Europe > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Fashion in art > Exhibitions.
Clothing and dress in art > Exhibitions.
Clothing and dress in art.
Dresses.
Fashion and art.
Fashion in art.
Fashion > Social aspects.
Women's clothing.
Europe.
Gesellschaft.
Kleid.
Kunst.
Mode.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Katia Baudin
  • Introduction: "There are fears of some sort of revolution" / Ina Ewers-Schultz and Magdalena Holzhey
  • The dress as a work of art.
  • The dress as a work of art, beauty as a weapon, and the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk: on a new understanding of art around 1900 / Ina Ewers-Schultz
  • Closely tied: the Krefeld Museum director Friedrich Deneken and his European network / Inga Ganzer
  • "The fairies have strewn flowers along the way": the textile designer and Gesamtkünstler Henry van de Velde and his Weimar circle / Antje Neumann
  • "The highest intelligence in the freest body!": modern dance as a symbiosis of body and costume / Ina Ewers-Schultz
  • New shapes and decors.
  • Making an appearance: the fashion frenzy and "new style" in women's clothing around 1900 / Isa Fleischmann-Heck
  • "The artistic elevation of women's dress": Krefeld 1900 and its consequences / Magdalena Holzhey
  • "A miracle how preciously the people here understand their work in silk": Johan Thorn Prikker as a textile artist: from Batik to Krefeld artists' silk / Christiane Heiser
  • Kimono & Co.: the influence of Japan as well as historical and regional garments on fashion around 1900 / Isa Fleischmann-Heck
  • Ambivalent gender roles.
  • "Since not all women, even if they have taste, are able to invent suitable ornaments": women and their clothes between decoration and emancipation / Magdalena Holzhey
  • "The essential thing is the individual adaptation to the wearer": Anna Muthesius's Das Eigenkleid der Frau / Ina Ewers-Schultz
  • "Antineutral clothing for men": the artistic reform of men's wear / Ina Ewers-Schultz
  • The body under the clothes: nude photography of women in the context of clothing reform / Patricia Ober
  • Staging and communication.
  • Posing for a new world: artistic dresses and how they were communicated / Burcu Dogramaci
  • The Wiener Werkstätte and the fashion reform / Christian Brandstätter
  • "The art of clothing oneself must be popularized": the artistic reform dress as an ideal, an aesthetic, and consumer culture / Friederike Berger
  • The Omega Workshops: painting in space / Karin Thönnissen
  • Looking back and ahead.
  • "Deeds not words": on the political iconography of women's dress / Thorsten Scheer
  • Skirt and rib: bodies in the gaze / Juliane Hahn.