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Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World. |
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Fuad-Luke, Alastair/ 9781844076444
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Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse.
Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring. |
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Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World. |
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Fuad-Luke, Alastair/ 9781844076451
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Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse.
Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring. |
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Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice. |
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Fry, Tony/ 9781847882172
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Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice which recognises design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable.
Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author's ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the 21st Century.
Design Futuring ¡V a pathfinding text for the new era ¡V extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice and will be invaluable also to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts, Business and Management. |
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Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice. |
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Fry, Tony/ 9781847882189
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Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice which recognises design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable.
Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author's ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the 21st Century.
Design Futuring ¡V a pathfinding text for the new era ¡V extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice and will be invaluable also to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts, Business and Management. |
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Modern Interior, The. |
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Sparke, Penny/ 9781861893727
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Through the impact of shops like Habitat and IKEA, and of the countless glossy magazines, books and catalogues that focus on 'interior design', we have all become familiar with the idea of our homes and public interiors containing items of modern furniture, modern furnishings and decor. In the industrialized world, the 'modern interior' has become one of the most common aspirations of modern life. But in spite of its familiarity, it is rarely realized in its absolute form and is frequently compromised by the presence of traditional artefacts and stylistic references within it.
Design historian and critic Penny Sparke provides a persuasive account of the forces, conflicts and debates that have underpinned the emergence of something we now effortlessly refer to as 'the modern interior'. She deftly unravels the shift from Victorian to modern style, and demonstrates that the easy transition so frequently portrayed is little more than a mythology. Crucially, she shows that, unlike designed buildings and artefacts, the fixed idea of the 'interior' has only ever existed in an idealized form, promoted through exhibitions, retail contexts and the mass media.
The Modern Interior offers fascinating and eloquent insights into the work of many well-known designers, from C. R. Mackintosh, Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Lily Reich, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Charles and Ray Eames, to Florence Knoll, Philippe Starck, John Pawson and Norman Foster, and provides a broad international perspective. Essential reading for all students of modern design, architecture and culture, as well as a general audience interested in why the interior spaces we inhabit look the way they do. |
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Judicious Eye, The: Architecture against the Other Arts. |
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Rykwert, Joseph/ 9781861893581
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It is only in relatively recent times that architecture, together with engineering and other allied disciplines, has been divorced from the visual arts. In The Judicious Eye, renowned architectural historian Joseph Rykwert examines how this separation of roles occured, explains how architecture and the arts are now coming together again, and suggests what this implies for the future.
Architecture was first withdrawn from the community of the arts during the Enlightenment, partly at the bidding of philosophers: Kant excluded it from aesthetic attention; later, Hegel declared it moribund and Schopenhauer found it crass. While architects bound themselves into a profession, other artists moved into marginal situations, and a widening gulf thus opened between architects and other ¡¥visual¡¦ artists.
Joseph Rykwert explores this rift as well as the various attempts to heal it, most notably by Richard Wagner, who advocated the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art, where music and literature play out their action against an appropriate architectural setting. He also explains how twentieth-century architects were enlisted by the artistic avant-garde in its battle against a stagnant society, and how artists today continue to be urged by various institutions to re-enter public space on their own terms.
In the twenty-first century art and architecture are growing closer: some architects are attempting sculptural forms in their buildings, and sculptors have been called on to ¡¥shape¡¦ whole buildings to their fancy. The Judicious Eye is an illuminating, well-illustrated account of architecture¡¦s separation and reconnection with the arts, which will interest specialists in architecture and engineering, as well as the wide audience for art and history. |
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Thinking Through Craft. |
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Adamson, Glenn/ 9781845206468
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This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today¡¦s visual arts, when high ¡¥production values¡¦ are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft¡¦s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians.
Dispensing with cliched arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft¡¦s role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts. |
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Thinking Through Craft. |
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Adamson, Glenn/ 9781845206475
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This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today¡¦s visual arts, when high ¡¥production values¡¦ are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft¡¦s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians.
Dispensing with cliched arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft¡¦s role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves. Thinking Through Craft will be essential reading for anyone interested in craft or the broader visual arts. |
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Dress Sense: The Emotional and Sensory Experience of Clothes. |
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Johnson, Donald C./ 9781845206925
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Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology.
The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies.
For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing. |
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Dress Sense: The Emotional and Sensory Experience of Clothes. |
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Foster, Helen B./ 9781845206932
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Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology.
The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies.
For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing. |
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London: After a Fashion. |
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O'Neill, Alistair/ 9781861893154
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London Fashion Week has maintained the capital¡¦s position as one of the most important cities on the international fashion calendar for over twenty-five years. The roots of London's pre-eminence as an international epicentre of haute couture and pret-a-porter stretch back centuries, and they are explored here in London ¡V after a Fashion.
Arguing that fashion was central to the impact of modernity in late nineteenth- and
twentieth-century London, Alistair O¡¦Neill maps the progress of fashion against the city¡¦s neighbourhoods and streets. Carnaby Street, Soho, Jermyn Street and King¡¦s Road each get their turn in London ¡V after a Fashion, along with many others, revealing the intersection between London¡¦s urban history and the development of fashion. O¡¦Neill¡¦s analysis is not merely confined to clothing ¡V from the popularity of tattooing in the 1890s to the diverse uses of chintz in the 1980s design aesthetic, he traces the history of fashion in its various manifestations and explores how particular figures were key to disseminating fashion throughout British and international cultures. |
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New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg. |
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Berman, Marshall/ 9781861893383
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New York City in the 1970s was the setting for Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever, the nightmare playground for Son of Sam and The Warriors, the proving grounds for graffiti, punk, hip-hop, and all manner of other public spectacle. Musicians, artists and writers could subsist even in Manhattan, while immigrants from the world over were reinventing the city in their own image. Others, fed up with crime, filth and frustration, simply split.
Fast-forward three decades and today New York can appear a glamorous metropolis, with real estate prices soaring higher than its skyscrapers. But is this fresh-scrubbed, affluent city really an improvement on its grittier ¡V and more affordable ¡V predecessor? Taking us back to the streets where eccentricity and anomie were pervasive, New York Calling unlocks life in the unpolished Apple, where, it seemed, anything could happen. All five boroughs ¡V the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island ¡V comprising hundreds of neighbourhoods and the interlaced worlds of politics, crime, drugs, sex, and mischief, are explored with a love of the city unclouded by romance yet undimmed by cynicism. |
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Motorcycle. |
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Alford, Steven E./ 9781861893451
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Easy Rider. Motocross Grand Prix. James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. The motorcycle is a global icon of untamed freedom, symbolizing a daring and reckless lifestyle of adventure. Yet there are few books that chronicle how and when this legendary vehicle roared down the open road. Motorcycle explores the roots of the rebel¡¦s ultimate ride.
After early incarnations as a nineteenth-century steam-powered bicycle and multi-wheeled vehicle, the modern motorcycle came into its own as a cheap, mobile military asset during World War I. From there, it rapidly spread through modern culture as a symbol of rebellion and subversive power, and Motorcycle tracks the symbolic role that the bike has played in literature, art and film. The authors also investigate the international subcultures that revolve around the motorcycle and scooter. They chart the emergence of biker culture and explore how the motorcycle came to represent untamed nonconformity in the US. In contrast, smaller scooters such as the Vespa and moped became the utilitarian vehicle of choice in space-starved metropolises across Europe and Asia. Ultimately, the authors argue, the motorbike is the exemplary Modernist object, dependent on the perfect balance of man and machine.
An unprecedented and wholly engrossing account, Motorcycle is essential reading for the Harley-Davidson roadhog, bike aficionado and collector, or anyone who¡¦s felt the power of the unmistakable king of the road. |
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Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice. |
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Walker, Stuart/ 9781844073535
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Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice. |
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Walker, Stuart/ 9781844073542
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Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design-centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and the relationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aesthetic experience.
This book will introduce vital concepts to students and will inspire designers by providing a well-articulated basis for understanding the complexity and potential of sustainable design, and extolling the contribution of design to the creation of a more meaningful material culture.
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Fashion's World Cities. |
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Breward, Christopher/ 9781845204129
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This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the 'cultural economy' of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities.
In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion. |
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Fashion's World Cities. |
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Breward, Christopher/ 9781845204136
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This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the 'cultural economy' of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities.
In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion. |
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Dressed In Fiction. |
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Hughes, Clair/ 9781845201715
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Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Daniel Defoe's Roxana to George Eliot's Middlemarch and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Covering a range of topics, from the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, to the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness, the book presents a unique study of the history of clothing through the most popular and influential literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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Dressed In Fiction. |
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Hughes, Clair/ 9781845201722
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National Fabric, The: Britain, Britishness and British Fashion. |
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Goodrum, Alison/ 9781845201869
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British fashion is characterized by oppositions: punk versus pageantry, anarchy versus monarchy, Cool Britannia versus Rule Britannia. Why has British fashion come to be so contradictory? How are these contradictions employed to 'sell British'? What do they mean for consumers who 'buy British'?
Through an examination of iconic fashion companies Paul Smith and Mulberry, The National Fabric provides telling insights into the culture of contemporary fashion and the dilemmas of 'going global'. Goodrum argues that 'Britishness' is characterized less through a particular look than through its ambiguities. She shows how the apparently straightforward and economically-driven process of globalizing British fashion is, in fact, far more culturally nuanced and locally embedded than has previously been suggested. In examining the interplay between fashion and Britishness, Goodrum redresses a longstanding omission in fashion theory, which has been preoccupied with class, gender and race rather than with national identity. |
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Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century. |
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Buxbaum, Gerda/ 9783791333120
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Now available in an attractively priced flexi edition, this best-selling book is an opulent and absorbing overview of the fashion world throughout the twentieth century. From Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Kenzo to Versace, grunge to haute couture, every period and major name in twentieth-century fashion is included in this comprehensive collection of fascinating photographs, drawings, and texts.
Organized into sections according to style, it features double-page spreads highlighting every aspect of fashion: designers, models, critics, and fashion photographers. Gorgeous images by Peter Lindbergh, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, and others capture the attitudes and artistry of fashion as it evolved over the decades. As glamorous as its subject, this colourful survey will provide inspiration for anyone fascinated with the world of fashion. |
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Story of Lingerie, The. |
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Falluel, Fabienne/ 9781859958049
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What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society? Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy. They correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zestly humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention the authors believe it deserves. |
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Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion, 3-Vols/Set. |
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From diapers to Dior, saris to serapes, the world of clothing is nearly as vast and as ancient as the human race. Tracing the stylistic and functional threads that unite clothing across time and cul-tures -- as well as delving into the divergent styles and significance of apparel -- this A to Z encyclopedia is the essential resource for exploring the relationship between culture and couture.
This broad-based set surveys clothing, body adornment, and examines the origins of clothing, the development of fabrics and technologies, and the social meanings of dress. It also presents information on representative costumes from a wide variety of historical eras, which are frequently the topic of student research. Topics range from the bustle, sari, and toga to Polyester and body piercing. The short entries explain the history of garments (necktie, codpiece, cocktail dress, bathing suit, burqua, Nehru jacket), techniques and manufactures (batik, dry cleaning, zipper, stone washing), body adornment (makeup, mask, tattoo, wig), and important persons and institutions (Coco Chanel, Edith Head, Yves Saint-Laurent, Fashion Institute of Technology). The longer essays provide cultural context: class, gender, sumptuary laws, costume design for stage and screen, advertising; fashion careers; ecclesiastical dress; military uniforms; etc.
The set includes a comprehensive general index in the last volume, a timeline, and a topical outline. From the secondary school student writing a paper on dress among Native Americans to the university student interested in the underpinnings of clothing design, this set represents a unique and valuable source. |
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Art Nouveau Glass: The Gerda Koepff Collection. |
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Ricke, Helmut/ 9783791330211
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Looking closely at one of the world's most extensive collections of French Art Nouveau Glass, this generously illustrated volume is an important contribution to the history of glass art, offering the latest research into the art historical background of the Gerda Koepff Collection and the techniques that make these pieces so exquisite. Full-page color illustrations of 126 pieces of Art Nouveau glass from the famed Gerda Koepff Collection, kept in the Dusseldorf museum kunst palast, reveal the dazzling achievements of this brief period in the history of decorative glass. Marked by sensuous lines inspired by nature, layers of vibrant color, and fanciful engravings, these pieces were created largely as a reaction to the derivative classicism of the Victorian era.
Among the greatest artists of the genre were Emile Galle and his counterparts at the Daum Freres studio, whose works form the core of this massive collection. Equally breathtaking examples from Burgun, Schverer & Co., Desire Christian and the most important studio artists in Paris demonstrate the incredible skill and originality that mark the period. Accompanied by authoritative essays on history and technique as well as company histories and artists' biographies, this luminous display of glass masterpieces is certain to become the definitive work on the subject of Art Nouveau glass. |
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Xtreme Fashion. |
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Smith, Courtenay/ 9783791331751
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In Xtreme Fashion authors Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham turn their attention to the fashion world, where haute couture is taking a backseat to serious concerns about the environment, personal safety, and privacy. Featuring more than 300 color photos and fascinating text, the authors show how real fashion starts on the streets, born of urban conditions from gang culture to teenybopper worship.
They showcase the works of designers, artists, and other creative individuals such as Moreno Ferrari, Freddie Robins, Vexed Generation, Alicia Framis, Daniele Buetti, Lucy Orta, and Hussein Chalayan to illustrate the demand for clothing that can protect, extend, alter, mark or mask the human body. Putting forth the idea that truly extreme fashion is not designed to be outlandish, but useful, Xtreme Fashion looks beyond the latest hemlines to clothing and accessories that respond to the world we live in. |
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Ranking Design 2003-2004: The Top 100 Industrial Design Manufacturers in Germany. |
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Buck, Alex/ 9783980932004
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German design is internationally revered for having yielded some of the most cutting-edge, innovative and technologically advanced products on the market today. Ranking Design represents a careful analysis of the results of Germany's top 19 professional design awards. From medical technology, consumer electronics, household goods, cars, machine parts and architectural elements to fashion, fabric, jewelry, lighting, logos, packaging and graphics, every product featured has won one of Germany's top design awards in the last year.
This lavish volume includes full-color, close-up illustrations of the best examples of design in Germany from the past year. Ranking Design presents the outstanding achievements of international and German designers who have qualified for the Ranking Design Top 100 in Germany. Alongside Siemens, Sony, Yamaha and BMW, there are many individuals and small design teams which make this annual review an essential sourcebook for industry professionals and consumers. Full contact names, addresses, websites and emails are listed in the book, making it the ideal resource for global industry. |
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Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with Their Clothes. |
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Guy, Ali/ 9781859733882
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Politics of Appearances, The: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France. |
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Wrigley, Richard/ 9781859735091
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Englishness of English Dress, The. |
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Conekin, Becky/ 9781859735282
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Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship. |
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