Health, Strength, Grace and Symmetry, Vol. IIDevelop to the Highest Degree of Attainable Perfection
| Description: |
This is the second part of two books in a series dealing with the history of women, exercise, and corsets. The first book, Health, Strength, Grace and Symmetry, Vol. 1: Muscular Symmetry and Fine Condition…for the more athletic more balanced woman… involves advertisements and images in the mid-to-late 19th century.This project was built upon the images found in Bernard MacFadden’s 1901 book The Power and Beauty of Superb Womanhood. What starts out to be a book about women and health, showing various exercises for physical self-improvement, seem to shift gears (at least for whoever was expected to be reading this book) for the women became topless, although the exercises involved didn’t seem to involve that part of the body. This was extremely intriguing to me, since MacFadden was also the editor of a 1903 magazine I owned Beauty and Health, where some of the corset advertisements in this project came from as well as some of the other exercising images.With all the writings involving exercise, once society got past the debate whether or not women should be exercising at all (in fear that it would take away their strength needed to produce children), the underlying message seemed to say, that you will need to be in shape in order to ensure happiness ...--Artist statement from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed August 27, 2018).One-of-a-kind artists book. |
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| Origin: | 2007 |
| Created By: |
Stone, Tamar R. |
| Publisher: |
New York: Tamar Stone, 2007. |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/917 |
| Collection: |
Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
Stone, Tamar R.Corsets. Body image in art. Body image in women. Advertising--Lingerie. Advertising in art. Human body--Social aspects. Beauty, Personal, in art. Artists books--New York (State)--New York. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Exercise--In art. Women--United States--History--19th century. Self-perception--Women. Conceptual art. double-sided accordion antique quilted doll corset, vintage cotton shoelace, cotton twill fabric,satin ribbons |
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This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.