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Teaching, Language & ReferenceApril 2017History through material culture
by Simon Trafford, Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair, Sarah Longair
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The ArtsFebruary 2018European fashion
The creation of a global industry
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard, Christopher Breward
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 new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a creative hub, aiming to understand how the birthplace of haute couture adapted to late-twentieth-century developments. Part II considers the retailer's role in shaping taste, responding to consumer expectations and disseminating fashion merchandise. Part III looks to alternative visions of the European fashion system that have appeared in unexpected places. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, covering design history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, management studies and the cultural history of business.
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The ArtsFebruary 2018European fashion
The creation of a global industry
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard, Christopher Breward
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 new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a creative hub, aiming to understand how the birthplace of haute couture adapted to late-twentieth-century developments. Part II considers the retailer's role in shaping taste, responding to consumer expectations and disseminating fashion merchandise. Part III looks to alternative visions of the European fashion system that have appeared in unexpected places. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, covering design history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, management studies and the cultural history of business.
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The ArtsFebruary 2018European fashion
The creation of a global industry
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard, Christopher Breward
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 new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a creative hub, aiming to understand how the birthplace of haute couture adapted to late-twentieth-century developments. Part II considers the retailer's role in shaping taste, responding to consumer expectations and disseminating fashion merchandise. Part III looks to alternative visions of the European fashion system that have appeared in unexpected places. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, covering design history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, management studies and the cultural history of business.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2017Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
by Rodney Barker
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities which they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important, from clothing to cuisine, from architecture to language, and to understand why and how people associate in groups and communities, and why they compete and conflict with each other, every aspect of identity has to be taken seriously. Whatever secrets may remain in people's minds or souls, who they are socially is what they say, what they eat, and how they live. This book is ideal reading for students, lecturers, and the general reader interested in the importance of identity in public life, and in the inherent political momentum in identity cultivation to both equality and inequality simultaneously. This title will be available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2017Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
by Rodney Barker
The colour of your clothes, the way you pronounce a name, the way you wear your hair, proclaim to the world who you think you are. Every aspect of human identity, from the way you walk to the way you talk, from clothes to food, can be a vital part of joining friends or fearing enemies. The identity which is cultivated out of such apparently trivial or superficial details is both the engine and the fragmenter of human society.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2017Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
by Rodney Barker
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities which they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important, from clothing to cuisine, from architecture to language, and to understand why and how people associate in groups and communities, and why they compete and conflict with each other, every aspect of identity has to be taken seriously. Whatever secrets may remain in people's minds or souls, who they are socially is what they say, what they eat, and how they live. This book is ideal reading for students, lecturers, and the general reader interested in the importance of identity in public life, and in the inherent political momentum in identity cultivation to both equality and inequality simultaneously. This title will be available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence.
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Industrial / commercial art & designApril 2017History through material culture
by Series edited by Simon Trafford, Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair
History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history. Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.
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Business, Economics & LawOctober 2017Fashionability
Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global market
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Fashion studies is a burgeoning field that often highlights the contributions of genius designers and high-profile brands with little reference to what goes on behind the scenes in the supply chain. This book pulls back the curtain on the global fashion system of the past 200 years to examine the relationship between the textile mills of Yorkshire - the firms that provided the entire Western world with warm wool fabrics - and their customers. It is a microhistory of a single firm, Abraham Moon and Sons Ltd, that sheds light on important macro questions about British industry, government policies on international trade, the role of multi-generational family firms and the place of design and innovation in business strategy. It is the first book to connect Yorkshire tweeds to the fashion system. Written in lively, accessible prose, this book will appeal to anyone who works in fashion or who wears fashion. There is nothing like it - and it will raise the bar for historical studies of global fashion. Here you'll find intriguing stories about a tweed theft from the Leeds Coloured Cloth Hall, debates on tariffs and global trade, the battle against synthetic fibres and the reinvention of British tweeds around heritage marketing. You won't be bored.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2017Cultivating political and public identity
Why plumage matters
by Rodney Barker
Public and political life can no longer be seen as simply the pursuit of material gain or even as the struggle for enough food and shelter by which to live. The interests people pursue are shaped by the identities they both inherit and cultivate. In generating identities, everything is important, from clothing to cuisine, from architecture to language; and to understand why and how people associate in groups and communities, and why they compete and conflict with each other, every aspect of identity has to be taken seriously. Whatever secrets may remain in people's minds or souls, who they are socially is what they say, what they eat, and how they live. This book is ideal reading for students, lecturers, and the general reader interested in the importance of identity in public life, and in the inherent political momentum in identity cultivation to both equality and inequality simultaneously. This title is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence at www.oapen.org.
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The ArtsOctober 2020Deco dandy
Designing masculinity in 1920s Paris
by John Potvin, Christopher Breward, James Ryan
Richly illustrated with over 110 colour and black and white images, Deco dandy productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences and expressions of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the heady years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the deco dandy. The book suggests a broader view of art deco by claiming a greater place for the male body, masculinity and the dandy in this history than has been given to date. Important, essential and productive moments in the history of the cultural life of Paris presented in the book are instructive of the changing role performed by consumerism, masculinity, design history and national identity.
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The ArtsOctober 2020Deco dandy
Designing masculinity in 1920s Paris
by John Potvin, Christopher Breward, James Ryan
Richly illustrated with over 110 colour and black and white images, Deco dandy productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences and expressions of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the heady years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the deco dandy. The book suggests a broader view of art deco by claiming a greater place for the male body, masculinity and the dandy in this history than has been given to date. Important, essential and productive moments in the history of the cultural life of Paris presented in the book are instructive of the changing role performed by consumerism, masculinity, design history and national identity.
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Trusted Partner
The ArtsOctober 2020Deco dandy
Designing masculinity in 1920s Paris
by John Potvin, Christopher Breward, James Ryan
Richly illustrated with over 110 colour and black and white images, Deco dandy productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences and expressions of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the heady years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the deco dandy. The book suggests a broader view of art deco by claiming a greater place for the male body, masculinity and the dandy in this history than has been given to date. Important, essential and productive moments in the history of the cultural life of Paris presented in the book are instructive of the changing role performed by consumerism, masculinity, design history and national identity.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2020History through material culture
by Simon Trafford, Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair
History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history. Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.
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Trusted Partner
Teaching, Language & ReferenceMay 2020History through material culture
by Simon Trafford, Leonie Hannan, Sarah Longair
History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history. Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.
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The ArtsJune 2020European fashion
The creation of a global industry
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard, Christopher Breward
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 new in a series of case studies grouped around three major themes. Part I focuses on Paris as a creative hub, aiming to understand how the birthplace of haute couture adapted to late-twentieth-century developments. Part II considers the retailer's role in shaping taste, responding to consumer expectations and disseminating fashion merchandise. Part III looks to alternative visions of the European fashion system that have appeared in unexpected places. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, covering design history, cultural anthropology, ethnography, management studies and the cultural history of business.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Comic empires
Imperialism in cartoons, caricature and satirical art
by Andrekos Varnava, Richard Scully, Alan Lester
Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe) the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels, Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of comics studies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Comic empires
Imperialism in cartoons, caricature and satirical art
by Andrekos Varnava, Richard Scully, Alan Lester
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2019Comic empires
Imperialism in cartoons, caricature and satirical art
by Andrekos Varnava, Richard Scully, Alan Lester
1 Introduction: The importance of cartoons caricature and satirical art in imperial contexts, Richard Scully & Andrekos Varnava PART ONE: High Imperialism and Colonialism 2 Courting the Colonies: Linley Sambourne, Punch, and Imperial Allegory, Robert Dingley & Richard Scully 3 'Master Jonathan" in Cuba: A Case Study in Colonial Bildungskarikatur, Albert D. Pionke & Frederick Whiting 4 'The International Siamese Twins': The Iconography of Anglo-American Inter-Imperialism, Stephen Tufnell 5 'Every Dog (No Distinction of Color) Has His Day': Thomas Nast and the Colonization of the American West, Fiona Halloran PART TWO: The Critique of Empire and the Context of Decolonization - 6 The Making of Harmony and War, from New Year Pictures to Propaganda Cartoons during China's Second Sino-Japanese War, Shaoqian Zhang 7 David Low and India, David Lockwood 8 Between imagined and 'real': Sarikhan's al-Masri Effendi: cartoons in the first half of the 1930s, Keren Zdafee 9 The Iconography of Decolonization in the Cartoons of the Suez Crisis, 1956, Stefanie Wichhart 10 Punch and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9, Andrekos Varnava & Casey Raeside PART THREE: Ambiguities of Empire - 11 Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference: Punch and the Armenian Massacres of 1894-6, Leslie Rogne Schumacher 12 Ambiguities in the fight waged by the socialist satirical review Der Wahre Jacob against militarism and imperialism, Jean-Claude Gardes 13 The 'Confounded Socialists' and the 'Commonwealth Co-operative Society': Cartoons and British Imperialism during the Attlee Labour Government, Charlotte Riley 14 Australian cartoonists at the end of Empire: no more 'Australia for the White Man', David Olds & Robert Phiddian Index
