by Jon Lackman | 17 February 2006 | Books, Modern
In CAA Reviews, Susan Fillin-Yeh, editor of Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture (2001), and contributor Robert E. Moore cross swords with Christopher Reed over his 2002 review. (Why so late?) Fillin-Yeh: Reed “so misses the point that he does not even recognize the book’s subject for what it is, an expanded definition of dandies—one that draws attention to unrecognized dandies and to a robust ‘outsider’ paradigm of sartorial finesse, self-construction, androgyny, and cross-dressing apart from Western European male dandies.” Reed: “its several excellent essays were compromised when bundled with others of dubious relevance” — “[many] simply seizing upon … superficial affinities.”
