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Musee Du Louvre : Painted Shoes

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"Fascinating details of the original pictures and a social history of footwear fashion" VOGUE In acclaimed photographer Lois Lammerhuber's pictures, shod feet in the Louvre paintings reveal undreamt-of information about people. The details are not only separate works of art, but also studies on centuries of shoe fashion and an excursion into social history. Almost intimate, the photographs raise the world of feet and footwear to eye level, showing delicate shoes and stout limbs; feet without shoes and shoes without feet. The viewing angle is a special one, not only for art enthusiasts but also for shoe lovers. Raphael, Goya, or Ingres did not produce or design footwear, but they all 'recorded' shoes, contributing to a history of footwear and at the same time creating fashion archives of shoes that people stepped out in between 1280 and 1863. In a brilliant discourse, Margo Glantz, an icon of Mexican literary studies, introduces the viewer to original thoughts on painting and footwear design, the history and sociology of shoes. Text in English, German, French & Spanish.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9783901753237
  • ISBN-10: 3901753230
  • Publisher: Edition Lammerhuber
  • Publish Date: February 2013
  • Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
  • Page Count: 256

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