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A lively exploration of the cultural significance of shoes.
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There's far more to shoes than leather. They are at once commodities and aesthetic artifacts. They inspire collectors, from the infamous Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos to contemporary Gen-Xers, who stockpile Steve Madden platforms, to the thirty- to forty-year old crowd who spend hundreds on Manolo Blahnik heels and Prada boots. Shoes, far more than mere foot coverings, both underscore and subvert class, gender, ethnic, and racial identities.
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Footnotes: On Shoes explores the many paradoxes inherent in shoes-in collecting, consuming, representing, and wearing them-as well as their enduring fascination. This collection of fourteen essays-published here for the first time-captures the cultural, psychological, and sexual significance of shoes in art, film, literature, history, folklore, and dance. Contributors look at the shoes that former slaves wore in their march toward freedom following the Civil War, the empty shoes of the Holocaust that represent their murdered wearers, ballet slippers that bear the marks of artistic obsession, and high heels that serve as markers of Latina feminine identity. They also explore shoes in film and in works of contemporary art by Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, and Lisa Milroy.
Shari Benstock is a professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. She is the author of several books, most recently "No Gifts from Chance": A Biography of Edith Wharton. Suzanne Ferriss teaches literature and gender studies at Nova Southeastern University. Together they also edited On Fashion (Rutgers University Press).
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- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0813528704
- ISBN 13 9780813528700
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages325
- EditorBenstock Shari
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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey
(2001)
ISBN 10: 0813528704
ISBN 13: 9780813528700
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Book Description Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, mylar cover, 325 pp., BW illus. A collection of 16 essays dealing with the cultural fascination with shoes. Offers "various answers to this question, from the perspectives of art, film, literature, history, folklore, dance, psychology, and cultural studies." (dj) Much food for thought here. G (Ex-art library; no DJ; labels on bindings; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; interior is clean.). Seller Inventory # 161448
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