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  • Wearable Objects and Curative Things

    Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine

    Edited by Dawn Woolley, Fiona Johnstone, Ellen Sampson, Paula Chambers ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Worn

    Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear

    by Ellen Sampson ...
    Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021In a culture preoccupied with newness and a fashion system largely predicated upon it, what is the significance of worn clothes and why do they have the power to affect us so deeply? How are relationships to clothing produced and maintained through the embodied practices of wearing, maintenance and repair? Through a ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • Redrawing Anthropology

    Materials, Movements, Lines

    Edited by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think about creativity and perception, to grasp the dynamics of improvisatory ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Speculative Everything

    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ...
    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Biography of Loneliness

    The History of an Emotion

    by Fay Bound Alberti ...
    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Beyond Art

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • What Is Art For?

    by Ellen Dissanayake ...
    Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called �art,� and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species� four-million-year evolutionary history ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Face of Fashion

    Cultural Studies in Fashion

    by Jennifer Craik ...
    First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion is dictated by elite designers and opinion leaders with evidence of a trickle-up effect from sub-cultures, mass consumer behaviour and everyday ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Essays on Modern Art: Hannah Wilke

    by Justice Koolhaas ...
    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Hannah Wilke is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. She has changed the way we think about ... Read more

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  • The Minor Gesture

    by Erin Manning ...
    Series series Thought in the Act
    In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human agency and political action. To embrace the minor ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Remote Avant-Garde

    Aboriginal Art under Occupation

    by Jennifer Loureide Biddle ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary ... Read more

    $20.89 USD