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  • Art in Orbit

    Art Objects and Spaceflight

    by Barbara Brownie ...
    Series series Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
    What role do the visual arts play in the emerging commercial spaceflight industry, and vice versa? This book considers the relationship between art practice and space science, presenting new **methodologies for art-sci collaboration informed by non-**terrestrial contexts.Regarded widely as an irreverent luxury accessible to only a select few, commercial space exploration seems an unlikely setting ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Transforming Type

    New Directions in Kinetic Typography

    by Barbara Brownie ...
    Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents, interactive poetry and motion graphics. As the screen increasingly imitates the properties of real-life environments, typographic sequences are able to present letters that are active and reactive. These environments invite new discussions about the difference between motion and change ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Superhero Costume

    Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction

    by Barbara Brownie, Danny M Graydon ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice.This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume and investigates wide-ranging issues such as identity, otherness, ritual dress and disguise. Analysis focuses ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Spacewear

    Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion

    by Barbara Brownie ...
    Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real and fictional, and has caused fashion design and spacesuit engineering to intersect in new, exciting ways. Spacewear traverses this uncharted territory by exploring the changing imagination of space in fashion ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Acts of Undressing

    Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing

    by Barbara Brownie ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    The act of undressing has a multitude of meanings, which vary dramatically when this commonly private gesture is presented for public consumption. This ground-breaking book explores the significance of undressing in various cultural and social contexts.As we are increasingly obsessed with dress choices as signifiers of who we are and how we feel, an investigation into what happens as we remove our ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • Wardrobe Crisis

    How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion

    by Clare Press ...
    Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or the tailor on the high street—or you made them yourself. Today, we rarely know the origins of the clothes hanging in our closets. The local shoemaker, dressmaker, and milliner are long gone, replaced a globalized fashion industry worth $1.5 trillion a year.In Wardrobe Crisis, fashion journalist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Glamour

    Women, History, Feminism

    by Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition?This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Social Life of Kimono

    Japanese Fashion Past and Present

    by Sheila Cliffe ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been thought of as a highly gendered, rigidly traditional and unchanging national costume. This book challenges that perception, revealing the nuanced meanings and messages behind the kimono from the point of view ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Consumptive Chic

    A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

    by Professor Carolyn A. Day ...
    During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Fabric of Cultures

    Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

    Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Hazel Clark ...
    Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art

    Marionettes, Models and Mannequins

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live.Packed with case ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Fashion and Jazz

    Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation

    by Alphonso McClendon ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion and style aesthetic. Fashion and Jazz is the first study to identify the behaviours, signs and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD