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Study of Dress History
Av Lou Taylor
Häftad, 2002
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374 kr
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Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on …
Matter of Art
Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, C.1250–1750
Av Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1224 kr
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Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted from the matter of nature, art objects were the physical embodiment of both the inherent qualities of materials and the forces of culture that used, refined and produced them. The study of materials offers a new approach to …
culture of fashion
A New History of Fashionable Dress
Häftad, 1995
348 kr
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This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in …
culture of craft
Av Peter Dormer
Häftad, 1997
301 kr
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Peter Dormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. One of the key questions discussed in the book is what makes the difference between a craft and a modern technology.
autobiography of a nation
The 1951 Festival of Britain
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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The first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. An examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951’s Festival’s exhibitions and events. Covers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of …
Bringing Modernity Home
Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war …
Dress and globalisation
Häftad, 2004
371 kr
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Dress and globalisation is the first work to survey dress around the world, drawing together issues of consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. It examines international western style dress, including jeans and business suits, …
Interior design and identity
Av Susie McKellar, Penny Sparke
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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This fascinating collection provides a chronologically arranged set of case studies looking at how interior design has constantly redefined itself as a manifestation of culture, from the eighteenth-century to the present day. The book looks at the amateur activities of female ‘home makers’ in …
Ideal Homes, 1918–39
Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism
Inbunden, 2018
1166 kr
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This book focuses on the housebuilding boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners. It investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of interwar homes then and now. It argues that …
Ideal Homes, 1918–39
Domestic Design and Suburban Modernism
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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This book explores the aspirations and tastes of new suburban communities in interwar England for domestic architecture and design that was both modern and nostalgic in a period where homeownership became the norm. It investigates the ways in which new suburban class and gender identities were …
Interiors of Empire
Objects, Space and Identity within the Indian Subcontinent, c. 1800–1947
Av Robin Jones
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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Interiors of Empire uses the methods of design history and material culture studies to analyse the domestic and public interiors of the British and local middle class during the heyday of the British Raj. It contrasts representations of that space within contemporary discourse with analysis of …
Representations of British Motoring
Inbunden, 2007
1132 kr
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Representations of British motoring provides important new insights into the established discourses of British motoring. Based on the patterns of representation that have mediated between the trade, owners and society, particularly the myths and realities generated by the advertising campaigns and …
Material Relations
Domestic Interiors and Middle–Class Families in England, 1850–1910
Av Jane Hamlett
Inbunden, 2010
1156 kr
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Material relations tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life including love, marriage, …
Arts and Crafts objects
Av Imogen Hart
Häftad, 2010
344 kr
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In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive ‘Arts and Crafts movement’ in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a sophisticated mode of looking at decorative art developed in England during the second half of the nineteenth century.Bringing to light a significant …
Material Renaissance
Av Michelle O'Malley, Evelyn Welch
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the exchange of objects and the meaning of demand in the lives of individuals in the Renaissance. Nor do we have much sense of the relationship …
Surface Tensions
Surface, Finish and the Meaning of Objects
Av Glenn Adamson, Victoria Kelley
Inbunden, 2013
1337 kr
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Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than ‘deeper’ or more ‘substantive’ aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be theorized as membranes, protective shells, …
Out of the Ivory Tower
The Independent Group and Popular Culture
Av Anne Massey, Christopher Breward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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The Independent Group is now the subject of global scholarly interest, and this book, a sequel to The Independent Group: Modernism and mass culture in Britain, 1945–59, explores the Anglo-American phenomenon from a new perspective. The Group included fine artists Magda Cordell, Richard Hamilton, …
Crafting Design in Italy
From Post-War to Postmodernism
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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Crafting design in Italy is the first book to examine the role that craft played in post-war Italian design, one of the most celebrated design episodes in the twentieth century. Craft was vital to the development of Italian design, and it has been so far overlooked.This book examines the multiple …
Chinoiserie
Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2014
1484 kr
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In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was instead a critical commentator on that culture. …
Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry
Readings and Reworkings
Inbunden, 2016
1337 kr
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This book aims to make sense of the Bayeux Tapestry by bringing together answers to a number of questions which this famous hanging presents to the viewer.How did the embroiderers organise the stitching of the Bayeux Tapestry? Are its limited colours used with greater sophistication than viewers …
Art versus Industry?
New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1337 kr
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This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions established by later interpretations of the work of John Ruskin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to reveal surprising examples of collaboration – between artists, …
Material Relations
Domestic Interiors and Middle–Class Families in England, 1850–1910
Av Jane Hamlett
Häftad, 2016
382 kr
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Material relations, now available in paperback, tells the story of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class families by exploring the domestic spaces they inhabited and the material goods they prized. By opening the doors of the house, the book sheds new light on aspects of family life …
Interior Decorating in Nineteenth-Century France
The Visual Culture of a New Profession
Av Anca I. Lasc
Inbunden, 2018
1227 kr
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This book explores the beginnings of the interior design profession in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources, from collecting and advice manuals to pattern books and department store catalogues, it demonstrates how new forms of print media were used to ‘sell’ the idea of …
Building Reputations
Architecture and the Artisan, 1750–1830
Av Conor Lucey
Inbunden, 2018
1236 kr
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Taking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology – the eighteenth-century brick terraced house – and the artisan …
European Fashion
The Creation of a Global Industry
Av Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard
Häftad, 2018
518 kr
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The period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celebrating the craftsmanship of haute couture to revelling in ever-changing fast-fashion. This volume examines the transition from the old system to the …
Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival
Av Jim Cheshire
E-bok, 2017
1175 kr
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Stained glass reached the height of its popularity in the Victorian period. But how did it become so popular and who was involved in this remarkable revival? The enthusiasm for these often exquisite pieces of artwork spread from specialist groups of antiquarians and architects to a much wider …
Art versus Industry?
New Perspectives on Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av Kate Nichols, Rebecca Wade m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions established by later interpretations of the work of John Ruskin, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to reveal surprising examples of collaboration – between artists, …
Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900
Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2020
1077 kr
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This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900. Using diverse textual, visual and material culture sources, it shows that masculinities were produced and disseminated through men’s bodies –often working-class ones – and the emotions and material culture …
Deco Dandy
Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris
Av John Potvin
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the 'deco …
Precarious objects
Activism and design in Italy
Av Ilaria Vanni
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy. As a category of labour and of global social experience in general, precarity is a wicked problem that affects all aspects of life, regulating the …
