“Nancy Hall-Duncan is internationally recognized for her books and exhibitions on art, fashion, and photography. As charming as she is knowledgeable, Nancy is a terrific writer, speaker, and curator.”
—Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
About Nancy Hall-Duncan
Nancy Hall-Duncan has enjoyed a distinguished career curating and writing on 20th and 21st century art, photography and fashion. She has published extensively in these fields, writing nearly thirty books and catalogs that have been published in four languages. Her groundbreaking 1978 book The History of Fashion Photography, winner of the Grand Prix from the Musée Français de la Photographie, was the first full-scale attempt to place fashion in its true relation to art history as a whole.
About Art X Fashion
In 75 eye-popping pairings of designer pieces and the artworks that inspired them, this stylish book reveals the art behind coveted fashion designs. Long before "collabs" became a buzzword, artists influenced every aspect of the fashion world. This approachable collection compares fashion and art side-by-side to highlight a variety of relationships: inspiration, collaboration, and artists working to create their own fashion or fashion photography.
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“Art X Fashion highlights the porosity of the arts in our…post-modern world, and opens an exciting new line of questioning that challenges the persistent hierarchies delimiting fashion’s aesthetic achievements.”
—Harold Koda, Former Curator-in-Chief of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
“The History of Fashion Photography is full of beautiful and fascinating pictures…clearly and firmly organized... The History of Fashion Photography is a scholarly study that is very close to being definitive.”
—Gene Thornton, The New York Times
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