Cubism and women Body

Photo by Lina Ekstrand

Western fashion’s index has always been the body that it concealed and more significantly that it described and analyzed. With cubism, fashion was no longer accountable to the body, just as representation was no longer determined solely by an optical standard. Those prior standards, including the body’s configuration, had assumed a sobriety and monumentality in discourse by the beginning of the twentieth century. One knows it is important to talk about a waist or about body symmetry, for example.

Brian Wolk and his cubist clothBut the cubists were talking collage talk, the discourse of the vernacular and the seemingly unorthodox and unimportant, without the lofty, ponderous, and place-giving words of representation, worldly and bodily.(GalesonD.W. 2009)

Galenson, D.W., 2009, Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art, Art and society History 20th centuryArt, Modern 20th century, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp.8-50, 51-75.