TY - BOOK AU - Hug,Catherine AU - Becker,Christoph AU - Matthäi,Carlotta Graedel AU - Lentzsch,Franziska ED - Kunsthaus Zürich TI - Fashion drive: extreme clothing in the visual arts T2 - Kerber culture SN - 9783735604330 U1 - 700 PY - 2018/// CY - Bielefeld PB - Kerber Verlag KW - Fashion in art KW - Exhibitions KW - Fashion KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Exhibition catalogs N1 - Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, April 20-July 15, 2018; Includes bibliographical references N2 - A journey through circa 500 years of fashion history as reflected in art: how have artists reacted to extreme phenomena such as slashed clothing, codpieces, the crinoline, or the dinner jacket? Fashion is an economic factor as well as a seismograph of social sensitivities, an expression of longing, and an instrument for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. In the modern age of global homogenization through "fast fashion," this exhibition aims to provide a critical and at the same time sensory overview of clothing in art and the problematic and subversive moments in the history of fashion through the techniques of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and film ER -