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Extreme beauty : the body transformed /
Publication details: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, ©2001.Description: 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmISBN:- 1588390152
- 9781588390158
Contents:
Summary: "Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, pad, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices"--Back cover.
Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Neck and shoulders -- Chest -- Waist -- Hips -- Feet.
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Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | GT 503 KOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0011097 |
Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from Dec. 6, 2001 through April 2002.
Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Neck and shoulders -- Chest -- Waist -- Hips -- Feet.
"Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, pad, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices"--Back cover.
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