"Read Mondrian?s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art
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An extraordinary look at how the style of Piet Mondrian’ s abstract paintings was posthumously appropriated by 1960s fashion, Pop art, and consumer culture.Yves Saint Laurent’ s 1965 Mondrian dresses are among the twentieth century’ s most celebrated and recognizable fashions, but the context of their creation involves much more than meets the eye. In Mondrian’ s Dress, Nancy J. Troy and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis offer a fresh approach to the coupling of Piet Mondrian’ s interwar paintings with Saint Laurent’ s couture designs by exposing the rampant merchandising and commodification that these works experienced in the 1960s. The authors situate the consolidation of Saint Laurent’ s fashion brand alongside the work of such Pop artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann, and show how conventional understandings of Mondrian’ s avant-garde abstractions were transformed by the mass circulation of his signature style. Beyond its
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