- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Overlook TP (1. Oktober 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0879517956
- ISBN-13: 978-0879517953
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 14,1 x 2 x 22,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.316.885 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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For reasons worthy of a book of their own, fashion models and designers have become the cultural heroes of the 1990s and, subsequently, movies stars, television hosts, and biography subjects. English pop-culture professor Fred Vermorel adds to the canon with his "new journalism" biography of Westwood. The British designer is perhaps best remembered for promoting (with arts dilettante Malcolm McLaren) the punk rock band the Sex Pistols in the 1970s. Westwood is an entertaining biographical subject, with her Horatio Algeresque story of working-class girl turned fashion hero and darling of the international jet set. The book is a good record of fashion history, for Westwood drew from eighteenth-and nineteenth-century notions of fashion to create her unique look. Less compelling are her pseudophilosophic musings, dubbed "situationism" (essentially sloganeering and other offensive behavior to create confrontation and controversy), and her own elitist appraisals of her "genius." Still, Vermorel, a childhood friend of Westwood's brother, has compiled a witty oral history of the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and some of its most memorable heroes. Ted Leventhal
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As much about the author as it is about avant-garde fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, this book seems most concerned with trying to explain the origins and philosophy of Punk culture in England. In the first half of the book, an imaginary biographical interview with the designer, the reader is faced with sinister subcultural ramblings from the rock historian who wrote The Sex Pistols: The Inside Story (Omnibus, 1983). Throughout Vermorel dwells on the rebellious social climate of the 1960s and the Westwood/ Malcolm McLaren partnership, which he credits with the invention of Punk. American readers unfamiliar with Westwood would never guess from this book that she is still a major figure in the fashion world, nor would they get an idea of what her past and present designs look like, as the 17 black-and-white photographs from Westwood's early life and career fail to convey the scope of her work. The definitive book on Vivienne Westwood is yet to be written; this attempt will be of marginal interest only to academic popular culture collections.?Therese Duzinkiewicz Baker, Western Kentucky Univ. Libs., Bowling Green
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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Dissapointment is the only word that I can politely use to describe this book. Even if you love Vivienne Westwood, I would still advise you to avoid this as it is pure indulgence on the part of Vermorel. It is beyond me how a book about a fashion couturier can have so few pictures and possibly so few facts? please frd come back to earth. I would advise that if you are going to buy a book on Westwood, I would suggest Gene Krell - which although is about 10 times shorter is positively more rewarding and has colour plates. ciao,
Maureen Farquhar. (maureenfarquhar@yahoo.com)
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a really lame book by a self-seeking, delusional half-wit. If you've got nothing better to do you could look at it, but then why not buy some paint and watch it dry instead. Fred Vermorel needs to move beyond 1968 and realize that situationism is for tired, old has-beens. Why hasn't he read any social or cultural theory since 1972? This guy is a total waster.
Format:Taschenbuch
Although this is billed as a biography of Vivenne Westwood, this is more an autobiography of it's enfant-terrible author, Fred Vermorel. The first half, in true Vermorel style, appropriates quotes, both in- and out-of-context, to build a montage picture of the not-really-so-rebellious-ma'am Viv Westwood. But hey! you don't really want to read about her, do you? Let's read about its author. And that is just what Fred lets you do for more than half this book. After dispensing with the Westwood/Maclaren clothing/music/attitude revolution in the first hundred pages or so, he then launches into a brief history of My Life As A Teenage Situationist. The thing is, this is the best part of the book, biased, (mildly) egocentric, a real look into the mind of someone who genuinely believed in changing the world, or people's perception of it, through extreme measures and practical jokes. OK some of it may be archetypal teenage rebel stuff, but this is one of the best accounts of the "Art-outsider" and the formation of the punk attitude around. Pop sociologists: add this to your list of required reading along with Jon Savage's "England's Dreaming" and Greil Marcus' "Lipstick Traces"
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