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Studies in Design and Material...Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than deeper or more substa... 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... more
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Studies in Design and Material...The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia... The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia s first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a... more
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Studies in Design and Material...Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling... 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... more
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Studies in Design and Material...In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a coh... 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... more
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Studies in Design and Material...This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and co... This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent contrasting representations of such spaces within contemporary... more
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Pre-Owned The Matter of Art: M...Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted fro... 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.... more
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Cultural Histories of Design S...This volume explores the intersections between the body textiles clothes soft ... This volume explores the intersections between the body textiles clothes soft furnishings and architectural surfaces in the German-speaking world from 1830 to 1914. While the continuum from bodies to clothing to architecture was present in popular... more
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Everyday Objects: Medieval and...Material culture research has become an increasingly important aspect of the s... Material culture research has become an increasingly important aspect of the study of medieval and early modern societies yet its study often remains uncoordinated and confined to narrow subject specific boundaries. As such scholars will welcome... more
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Museum Meanings Colonialism an...Drawing together intensive case studies from an international group of scholar... Drawing together intensive case studies from an international group of scholars the editors explore the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. more
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Palgrave Studies in the Enligh...Material Culture and Sedition 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways ... Material Culture and Sedition 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh... more
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Pre-Owned Studies in Design an...Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted fro... 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.... more
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Studies in Design and Material...Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted fro... 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.... more
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Studies in Design and Material...Materials carried the meaning of early modern art. Transformed and crafted fro... 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.... more
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Studies in Design and Material...This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and ... 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... more
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Studies in Design and Material...In eighteenth-century Britain greater numbers of people entered the marketplac... In eighteenth-century Britain greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change?... more
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