The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art

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The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art. / Förster-Beuthan, Yvonne.
From Humanism to Meta-, Post and Transhumanism?. ed. / Irina Deretic; Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Vol. 8 Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag, 2015. p. 321-332 (Beyond humanism; Vol. 8).

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Harvard

Förster-Beuthan, Y 2015, The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art. in I Deretic & SL Sorgner (eds), From Humanism to Meta-, Post and Transhumanism?. vol. 8, Beyond humanism, vol. 8, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, pp. 321-332. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05483-5

APA

Förster-Beuthan, Y. (2015). The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art. In I. Deretic, & S. L. Sorgner (Eds.), From Humanism to Meta-, Post and Transhumanism? (Vol. 8, pp. 321-332). (Beyond humanism; Vol. 8). Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-05483-5

Vancouver

Förster-Beuthan Y. The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art. In Deretic I, Sorgner SL, editors, From Humanism to Meta-, Post and Transhumanism?. Vol. 8. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. 2015. p. 321-332. (Beyond humanism). doi: 10.3726/978-3-653-05483-5

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