{"product_id":"9781526180520","title":"What the dresses know : A women's history of modernism told through clothes","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Oliver, Sophie \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/11\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages, 9 colour illustrations, 46 black \u0026amp; white illustrations,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781526180520,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. -- .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313805992309,"sku":"9781526180520","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781526180520.jpg?v=1782311279","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781526180520","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}