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Fashion and Transgression is an exhibition of representations of the fashionable woman in Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1950.
Identity, taste, style, glamour, the new woman, spectacle, orientalism, and the body are among the themes revealed in a variety of materials taken from several Los Angeles collections. The exhibition explores tensions between personal and social identity, as well as the tensions between the liberation and regulation of the body. It is through this exploration that "fashion" and "transgression" emerge as complementary rather than mutually exclusive terms. Further, the woman is shown not only as the creator and object of spectacle, but as a spectator who consciously interprets what is presented as fashion. Finally, the exhibition demonstrates how mass media democratizes fashion, allowing a broad female audience to become participants in the process of defining it.
Objects in this exhibition are on loan from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute Special Collections, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Special Collections, the Hammer Museum, USC Doheny Library Special Collections, and the Institute of Modern Russian Culture. Materials include: limited edition journals such as the Gazette du Bon Ton; photographs by Man Ray, Brassai, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and George Hurrell; pochoir albums by Paul Iribe and George Lepape; a rare book by Jean Saudé; prints and drawings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Salvador Dali and Otto Dix.
Fashion and Transgression is curated by Dr. Nancy Troy and the USC Museum Studies Class of 2004.
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