2025/06/19 by Felice McDowell · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Art, Technology, and Culture
paper · doi:10.1093/jdh/epaf018
openalex publication_date 2025/06/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The myriad interconnections and exchanges that have taken place between the fields of art and fashion throughout Western modernity have intrigued, perplexed, and at times appeared to have caused upset to the handful of art historians and critics who have deemed the subject worthy of attention. Arguably, since the 1990s, an ongoing flurry of purposeful activities, events, products, and collaborations that have emerged between various institutions, brands, social actors, and creatives from the global worlds of art and fashion is demonstrable of a tangible and evermore prescient relationship based upon mutual interests and benefits. Yet, beyond these more recent and contemporary contexts of late 20th and early 21st centuries a more extensive history of the relationship between art and fashion in terms of its multifarious dimensions, intrigues, and iterations is lacking if not taken for granted. It is refreshing to see the authors, Nancy J. Troy and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis, apply meticulous scrutiny to this subject in the shape of their recent publication Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian and Pop Art.