Book Review: Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History by Camille Benda
Benedetta Rizzo
Vol 11, Issue 1 · pp. 181–189 · 2025 · DOI https://doi.org/10.63961/2025.208
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Book Review of Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest Through History by Camille Benda, Princeton Architectural Press, 2021
This work by Camille Benda results in being perfectly timely while also being backed by historical contents. The overall outline guides the reader through the journey in a clear and functional way, by dissecting a multitude of forms and facets of fashion and of activist movements. The historical evolution is analyzed not only through popular pillar cases, but it is enriched by micromovements, providing abundant examples with respective visual contents, which complete the rich descriptions provided by the author.
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