{"product_id":"what-the-dresses-know-sophie-oliver-9781526180520","title":"What the Dresses Know: A Women's History of Modernism Told Through Clothes","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exciting new history of modernism that re-examines the movement through some of its most brilliant female artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Pioneering women were at the heart of the movement known as modernism. In What the dresses know, Sophie Oliver offers a new account of their radical experiments and extraordinary lives, told through the clothes they made and wore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From a dress Vanessa Bell rescued from the London Blitz to Frida Kahlo's huipiles and a waistcoat embroidered for Gertrude Stein by Alice B. Toklas, these special objects tell a story of artists seeking transformation. But getting dressed is rarely straightforward. Modernist women used clothes to think through the contradictions of the modern world: the inequalities of industrialisation, the terrible conformities demanded by fascism and racism and the call of feminists, socialists and avant-gardists to act differently and take up new forms of art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What the dresses know is an exhilarating account of women's bold attempts to make history during years of tumultuous change. A distinctive new voice in cultural criticism, Sophie Oliver uses clothes to explore the challenges modernist women faced - and to understand her own impulses in writing about them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophie Oliver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526180529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526180520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sophie Oliver","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852749746431,"sku":"9781526180520","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-the-dresses-know-sophie-oliver-9781526180520","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}