The artist's new clothes: Maria Sèthe, Henry Van de Velde and the question of modern self-fashioning

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Published: Jul 1, 2005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15581/014.7.25929
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Threuter, C. (2005). The artist’s new clothes: Maria Sèthe, Henry Van de Velde and the question of modern self-fashioning. Ra. Revista De Arquitectura, (7), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.15581/014.7.25929

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A photograph dated circa 1900 shows a woman dominating an interior room (Fig. 1). She stands erect. While her left arm lies loosely alongside her body, her right hand rests on the glass surface of a dainty chest of drawers, her head is bent slightly to the side and her gaze seems to follow her right hand. The woman, her blond hair put up at the neck, wears a full-length, high-necked and wide dress that falls heavily to the floor. The ornamental ribbons accentuating the otherwise monochromatic dress are striking: Long puffed sleeves flow into linear ornamented cuffs and two additional thin decorative stripes adorn the centre of the dress from the collar almost down to the hips. Behind the woman, the room opens up through a door into another room, of which the viewer only gets a glimpse, that shows a section of a framed painting on the back wall.

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No 7 (2005)
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