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Book SynopsisA complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: Moore's comics career from his early work in 2000AD to his breakthrough graphic novels and his later battles with the industry Moore's major works including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing and Promethea Key themes and contexts from Moore's subversion of the superhero genre and metafictional techniques to his creative collaborations and battles with the industry for creator control Critical approaches to Moore's workThe book includes a bibliography of critical work on Moore and discussion questions for classroom use.Trade ReviewAyres' comprehensive study explores Moore in all his contradictions: a superstar who was exploited by the system; a champion of minority representation who has been criticised for his use of stereotypes; the man who made graphic novels 'grim and gritty' yet embraced gentle comedy alongside dark realism. This critical examination is perfect for those discovering Moore, but long-term fans will also find new angles and insights, encouraging them to revisit the work of this towering, complex figure. * Will Brooker, Professor of Film and Cultural Studies, Kingston University London, UK *In Alan Moore: A Critical Guide, Jackson Ayres takes on the daunting task of covering Alan Moore’s career historically, chronologically, formally, thematically and ideologically. He does so with impressive thoroughness, sensitivity and panache. Ayres reminds us of why Alan Moore is so important to the history of comics in the first place, while also productively and impressively examining recent challenges to his canonical status. This book is a great place to start for Moore fans, but also for those who are more skeptical about his work’s value and relevance. Ayres leaves very few stones unturned in the quest to grapple with Moore, his legacy, and the development of the comics medium and industry over the past 40 years. * Eric Berlatsky, Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University, USA *Table of ContentsDedication Series Editor’s Preface List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Do We Need Moore? The Original Writer A Guide to this Guide 2. Historical and Biographical Contexts Mage of the Midlands Thatcherism The British Invasion Creator Rights 3. Key Texts, Part One Invading British Comics Origins 2000 A.D.: Short Stories, Skizz, DR and Quinch, and The Ballad of Halo Jones The Bojeffries Saga Reinventing Superheroes: Britain Marvelman/Miracleman Captain Britain V for Vendetta Reinventing Superheroes: America The Saga of the Swamp Thing Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Killing Joke Watchmen 4. Key Texts, Part Two Horrors of History From Hell A Small Killing Big Numbers Brought to Light Re-Imagining Superheroes 1963 Supreme Moore’s ‘90s Superheroes Cultural Commons “In Pictopia” Lost Girls The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen America’s Best Comics Tom Strong Tomorrow Stories Top 10 Promethea Histories of Horror Lovecraft Cycle: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence Crossed + 100 Cinema Purgatorio 5. Critical Questions Themes and Techniques Intertextuality Magic Psychogeography Englishness Representations Race Sexuality Sexual Violence 6. Social and Cultural Impact Authorship and Ownership The Revised Superhero Mature Readers? Politics and/of Comics Cultural Remixing Moore After Comics, Comics After Moore Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPacked with examples from groundbreaking designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Edun and People Tree, A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion is a much-needed overview of current models of fashion design and production. Alison Gwilt introduces the key issues associated with the production, use and disposal of fashion clothing and gives step-by-step guidance on how to identify and evaluate the potential impacts of a garment during the design process.With innovative examples of best practice from international designers and brands, the chapters follow each key stage in the life cycle of a fashion garment and explores approaches such as low-impact textiles techniques, mono-materiality, zero waste techniques, upcycling, repair and maintenance techniques and closed-loop design systems.New to this edition: More in-depth coverage of design thinking, materials manufacture, practical techniques for creating faster' recyclable fashion and new ways forward foTable of Contents1. Rethinking fashion design The supply chain The key issues Developments in sustainable fashion The future of fashion Spotlight on: Katharine Hamnett Exercise 1: Reflecting on sustainable fashion 2. The life cycle of a garment Life cycle thinking Activities and impacts Assessment tools and models Sustainable design strategies Spotlight on: Stella McCartney Interview: Amina Razvi Exercise 2: Comparing two garments 3. Design Garment design Spotlight on: Designing for empathy Exercise 3: Designing for empathy Selecting fabrics, materials and techniques Spotlight on: Using mono-materials Interview: Christopher Raeburn 4. Production Pattern-making and toiling Spotlight on: Zero-waste techniques Exercise 4: Working with geometric Construction Spotlight on: Design for longevity Interview: Zoltan Csaki 5. Distribution Suppliers and producers Spotlight on: Engaging with local communities Interview: Lizzie Harrison Retail Spotlight on: Designing for need Exercise 5: Designing for inclusive fashion 6. Use Patterns of use Spotlight on: Reducing laundering Repair and maintenance Spotlight on: Design for repair Exercise 6: Designing modular garments Interview: Joakim Levin 7. End-of-life... Reuse and remanufacture Spotlight on: Upcycling Exercise 7: Personalizing fashion through upcycling Interview: Cynthia Power Material recycling Spotlight on: Closed-loop production Glossary Online resources Student resources Bibliography Index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisAre digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they?From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us. Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with. This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making, and into the techno-politiTrade ReviewDesign and Digital Interfaces is reader-friendly by module, chapter, or jumping to the color-coded content most relevant to the reader’s interests ... [an] elegantly designed, innovative, and powerful book. * Society for Technical Communication *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Preface Introduction: What are digital interfaces? Technological Interfaces Cultural Interfaces Historical Interfaces What does an interface designer do? Theoretical Perspectives and Frameworks 1. Complexity and Fragmentation Fragmented distribution Fragmented devices Fragmented attention Technological approaches Design approaches Research Methods 2. Social Interfaces Design for Social Impact Soft Interfaces: Healthcare and Loneliness Accessibility: Democratization of Tools Collaborative Interfaces: Beyond Western-Centrism Interfaces for Sociality Constructing Social Identities 3. Legal and Political Interfaces Political Interfaces Entangled Interfaces The Political Action of Interfaces A History of Critical Practice Openness and Access Inscrutability and Opacity Critical Interfaces 4. Ethical Interfaces Design as exploitation Unforeseen consequences Legislation Ethical legibility Ethical design cultures Futuring ethical principles Ethical designers 5. Aesthetic Interfaces Aesthetics and the Senses Cultural aesthetics and meaning Aesthetics for use Aesthetics for Empathy 6. Uncertainty, Deviance and Futures Embracing Uncertainty Science-Fiction and Design Design Fiction Design Imaginaries Deviant Interfaces 7. Interviews Anab Jain Dan Lockton Mushon Zer-Aviv Sarah Gold Glossary References Index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisWhat do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's lives. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as things with attitude differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the mateTrade ReviewWild Things is particularly relevant to ongoing discussions of the politics of things. This is because of both Attfield’s choice to focus on voices hitherto unheard from – working class, domestic, female voices – and her effort to situate identity construction – in particular gender and sexual identity – within the her subjects’ choices to buy, use, and accrue things. * Design and Culture *It is wonderful to see a reprint of this seminal wide-ranging, thought-provoking book that, challenges us to consider, and then re-consider, how we think about things, and write about them too. I read the book in early draft form and often return to it; sometimes to think through things raised in it, at others for inspiration, or to remember her pioneering contributions to contemporary material culture studies and reflect upon her enormous impact upon generations of students and scholars across a range of disciplines. A designer before she turned to design history and discovered a passion for anthropology and critical theory, as well as for “history from below” her lively intellect knew no disciplinary boundaries. In Wild Things Judy’s love of objects and people, ideas, herstories/histories, and grappling with theory, is everywhere apparent. Enjoy the journey you take with her. * Pat Kirkham, Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London, UK *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface to the original edition Preface to the current edition by Claudia Marina Introduction: The material culture of everyday life Part I: Things 1. The meaning of design: Things with attitude 2. The meaning of things: Design in the lower case 3. Things and the dynamics of social change Part II: Themes 4. Continuity: Authenticity and the paradoxical nature of reproduction 5. Change: The ephemeral materiality of identity 6. Containment: The ecology of personal possessions Part III: Contexts 7. Space: Where things take place 8. Time: bringing things to life 9. The body: The threshold between nature and culture Conclusion Afterword by Jo Turney Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhere do shoppers meet before heading out to browse the stores? Why might they go to a particular shop and not another? What first attracts them to a brand or garment? Visual merchandising is concerned with all these questions, spanning the relationship between consumer, environment, brand and product. As part of the Basics Fashion Management series, Bailey and Baker introduce the principles underpinning successful visual merchandising using examples from budget, mid-range and luxury brands. These real-world examples take the form of detailed case studies and interviews, providing hands-on advice from all levels of industry. This revised edition includes additional coverage of online visual merchandising, lighting techniques, mannequin dressing and integrating technology into displays.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Research and Design - Visual design development; Model making and experimentation; Concept development; Presentation and communication of design concepts; 25 visual themes; Interview; Interview; Activities Chapter 2: Display Design Basics – Line; Composition; Texture; Colour; Lighting; Interview: focus on lighting; Activities Chapter 3: Space Planning Principles - Store architecture and retail formats; Space hierarchy; Space planning layouts; Customer navigation; Journey to sale; Case study; Activities Chapter 4: Displaying Merchandise - Retail windows; Mannequins: best practice guide; Selection of fashion merchandise; Landscaping; Fixtures; Case study; Case study; Activities Chapter 5: The Customer Experience - Designing the customer experience; Where do visual merchandisers work?; Working in the visual merchandising industry; Portable and pop-up stores; Interview; Activities Chapter 6: The Future of Visual Merchandising - Shopping trends and innovations; Technology and digital visual merchandising – expanded; Sustainability – expanded; Internationalisation; Case study: technology; Interview: online visual merchandiser; Activities Appendix – Resources; Glossary: expanded from first edition; Index; Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to the global Manga Boom' of the 1990s to the present Case studies of texts reflecting the range of themes, genres, forms and creators, including Osamu Tezuka, Machiko Hasegawa and Katsuhiro Otomo Key themes and contexts from gender and sexuality, to history and censorship Critical approaches to manga, including definitions, biography and reception and global publishing contextsThe book includes a bibliography of essential critical writing on manga, discussion questions for classroom use and a glossary of key critical terms.Trade ReviewAs someone who works on mostly the western tradition in comics I have long wanted to have an up to date work that provides both a historical overview of manga and deals with its social and cultural impact both in Japan and globally. Suzuki and Stewart have delivered that work. It will be both a useful reference work for comics scholars wishing to engage with manga and a useful text book for classroom teaching that wishes to encompass the global forms of comics. * Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore, Singapore *Japanese manga culture is a vast universe in terms of both its scale and diversity. To the uninitiated, the question of where and how to best enter this universe is often hard to answer. To existing fans of specific artists and works, the question is often how to break through a type of tunnel vision and place one’s own interests in some sort of larger context. And as more and more people need to teach, or want to write, about manga, the need for an updated guide becomes essential. Kudos to scholars Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart for their stellar work with Manga: A Critical Guide. * Frederik L. Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics (1983) *Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction 2. Historical Overview Part I: The Emergence of Manga to 1945 The Problem of Start Points and Definitions Manga’s Emergence in Modern Periodical Print Media Towards Character-Driven Narratives and a Profession Children’s Manga Growth, Media Interplay, and the Dark Valley of War Part II: 1945 to the Present From Ashes and Ruins Expanding and Diversifying Readerships Manga Goes Mainstream After the Death of “God” 3. Social and Cultural Impact Controversy and Censorship Gender and Sexuality Historical Representation Media Mix and Dojinshi Participatory Culture Cultural Status and Institutions 4. Critical Uses Bounds of Manga Formal and Visual Analysis Biographical Approaches Gender and Sexuality Studies Approaches Historical Questions and Historical Representation 5. Key Texts Appendix: Glossary List of Museums Resources Index

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Book SynopsisInformation may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. This insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. Discussion is based around examples of visualization, from the ancient Andean information technology of the quipu to contemporary projects that show the fate of our rubbish and take a participatory approach to visualizing cities. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, and provides a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice.Trade ReviewDebunking the idea that data is ever ‘raw’ or unbiased, this book brings information anxiety to a new level as it goes deep into the underlying power structures at play in the assemblage of data and the motivations of those who amass it. Hall and Dávila explain how design’s focus on clarity and statistical accuracy can serve to enhance dominant narratives inherent in the data and challenge designers to activate their agency to visualize the kind of world in which we want to live. This should be required reading in any data visualization or information design curriculum. -- Thomas Starr, Professor of Graphic and Information Design, Northeastern University, USAHall and Dávila make a compelling argument for a critical approach to data visualization. Through a comprehensive survey of extant literature, a rereading of canonical images through decolonizing frameworks, and discussion of highly topical debates, they arrive at a rich examination of current projects drawn from a wide array of activities. They address self-quantification, smart cities, emotional cartography, and a whole host of specific and activist interventions in conventional data practices. Ultimately, they argue for visualizations that might create alternatives to dominant conventions and the oppressive power asymmetries of the status quo. -- Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, USAWith acuity and depth, Hall and Dávila demonstrate just how much history, culture and context matter for the design and interpretation of data visualization. Their book is timely and important, and will usher in a new era of critical data practice. -- Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, USATable of Contents1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization Defining the field Looking at Visualization beyond Western Paradigms Alternative Western perspectives: Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches 2. Disruptive Histories Positivism and Objectivity A History of Progress Critical Cartography: a 'Defining Moment' A Few Examples: Not a Canon - Haptic Visualization: the Quipu (1200-1532) - Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship (1789) - Polar Area Diagram (1859) - Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1875) - Data Visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois (1900) - Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath Conclusion Focus: Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018 3. Making Data Qualitative and Quantitative Data The Role of Categorization Focus: Data4Change - Keepiton - Hear the Blind Spot - Perceiving Yemen 4. Data and the Self Taylorism Within? Comic Critique What is Normal? Biometrics and Risk-Profiling Challenging Norms The Examined Life Focus: Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann, They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 5. Data and the City Participatory planning: HECTOR Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project 6. Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and Representation Representation as Translation 7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice

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Book SynopsisFashion's great innovations often spring from inspired designers developing unique concepts and challenging the status quo. But how do they do it? To find out, follow ten exceptional fashion design students as they respond to a brief, exploring their diverse strategies and the thinking behind their final collections.This second edition of Fashion Thinking features six new interviews, with insight from the director of Open Style Lab, Grace Jun, and Yeohlee Teng, whose designs have earned a permanent place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. There are also four new case studies, incorporating new technology including adaptive design for the visually impaired and the use of augmented reality.Beautifully illustrated and structured to clearly demonstrate how to take ideas from concept to design, Fashion Thinking demystifies the creative thinking process to help you develop your own unique collection.Fashion Thinking also has its own coTable of ContentsForeword by Shelley Fox CONTEXT An introduction to process Challenging the Status Quo Establishing Systems >The Design Cycle >Linear versus Random Idea Generation Research Exploration Design Translation 1: Hope for the Future by Janelle Abbott (Zero Waste) Perspective: Fashion + Sustainability, Timo Rissanen 2: Virtual Appropriation by Melitta Baumeister Perspective: Fashion + Architecture, Siki Im 3: My Wonderland by Leaf Xia Perspective: The Collective | Fashion + Art, Gabi Asfour and Adi Gil of threeASFOUR 4: Knitting and Pleating by Jie Li Perspective: Genderless Design + Socio-Political Awareness, Private Policy [Haoran Li & Siying Qu] 5: Via by Camila Chiriboga Perspective: Universal Design | Open Style Lab, Grace Jun 6: Trompe l'oeil by Sara Bro-Jorgensen Perspective: Zero Waste Design Ethos, Yeohlee Teng 7: Umbrella Ghosts by Tiffany Huang and Kailu Guan Perspective: Education + Professional Development, Sara Kozlowski 8: Tensegrity by Aura Taylor Perspective: Fashion Journalism, Humanitarianism + Body Positivity, Mickey Boardman 9: Techno Naturology by Elaine Ng Yan Ling Perspective: Textiles | Graduate Studies, Preethi Gopinath 10: Excessivism By Ji Won Choi Perspective: Design + Labor | Fashion Studies, Christina Moon Further Resources Glossary Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisDrawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of examples, exercises and tips from an army of professional animators to help you develop essential sketching, technical drawing and ideation techniques.With interviews and in-depth case studies from some of today''s leading animators, including Bill Plympton, Glen Keane, Tori Davis and John Canemaker, this is a unique guide to turning your sketchbook - the world''s cheapest, most portable pre-visualisation tool - into your own personal animation armory.Trade ReviewFrom novice to master in one volume! The depth and breadth of subjects are invaluable to an animator! * Kathryn McKelvey, University of Northumbria, UK *It covers everything in animation you need to know by connecting it to your sketchbook. * Mario Menjivar, The School of Visual Arts, USA *A great primer on how to get the most out of sketching as it relates to animation. * Ben Ridgway, San Francisco State University, USA *The book fulfills many functions: whilst it serves as a drawing/painting instruction book and includes exercises in many key techniques; it also inspires through its use of carefully chosen examples. Yet in demonstrating the application of these basic fine-art principles to animation it effortlessly crosses the boundary between disciplines that are too often kept apart. * Kathy Nicholls, University of Falmouth, UK *This is the most complete and rich text on the market. An essential book to understand advanced as well as basic techniques. * Pulvirenti Luca Orazio, Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Italy *This is an excellent and vital resource to demonstrate the importance of drawing and using a sketchbook as a crucial tool for all animators whether they work digitally or traditionally. It is beautifully and richly illustrated, using a wide range of examples from both the author and other professional animators. It also has helpful exercises to undertake as well as offering inspiration from its vast range of illustrated examples. A beautiful and informative book. * Roslind Allen, University of Sunderland, UK *This is an exceptional book on drawing. It covers a vast range of techniques and ideas in a clear and concise way with fantastic illustrated examples. Always carefully placing these within the context of animation production, Peter Parr has created a book that without a doubt will become a key text. -- Tim Holleyman, Senior Lecturer in AnimationTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Drawing and Sketching Techniques 1. Using Simple Shapes 2. Put it in Perspective 3. Drawing Figures and Animals 4. Drawing the ‘scapes: land, town and sea 5. Capturing Movement Part Two: Design and Development 6. Developing Ideas 7. Character Development 8. Layout and Background Design Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognized by business as major challenges, and while new practices like ''green design'' have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented. Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice that recognizes 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 twenty-first century. Design Futuring - a pathfinding text for the new era - extenTrade ReviewDesign Futuring defines redirective practice as a critical new paradigm for design-a way of engaging design and sustainability as they are implicated in and essential to our very survival. Broad. Accessible. Timely. * Eli Blevis, Indiana University at Bloomington *A great introduction to the key concepts and contributions that Tony Fry has brought to the discourse of sustainability, alongside new concepts like redirective practice and practical suggestions for meaningful action. This is original thinking accessible to readers from all sectors. * Frances Whitehead, School of the Art Institute of Chicago *This is an important book. One that is highly useful for designers, design educators and design students of any design area. * Aidan Rowe, University of Alberta *Forceful, convincing, persuasive, and ultimately refreshing, leaving the reader with renewed investment in the role of designers for a sustain-able future. * Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture *It has an easy reading style and an impressive bibliography and back up notes ... It's a reference book that could be used for core teaching right across the design and technology spectrum, with teachers being able to draw on concepts that can be easily explained at KS3, but also incorporating meatier offerings for those teaching at KS4 and A level. * just4Textiles *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART ONE: RETHINKING THE CONTEXT AND PRACTICE OF DESIGN 1. Understanding the Nature of 'Practice' 2. Understanding the Directional Nature of Design (as object and practice) 3. The Imperative of the Redirection of Design 4. Design as a Redirective Practice 5. Reviewing Two Key Redirective Practices 6. Futuring, Redirective Practice, Development and Culture PART TWO: STRATEGIC DESIGN THINKING 7. Unpacking Futuring in Relation to the Self, Community, Culture and Ethics 8. Methods of Change 1: Platforming, Return Briefs and New Teams 9. Methods of Change 2: Designing in time 10. Futuring and Learning the New from the Past 11. Designer as Redirective Practitioner: New Roles beyond Design PART 3: DESIGN, SUSTAINMENT AND FUTURES 12. Futuring Against Sustaining the Unsustainable 13. Sustainment and a New Epoch of Humanity 14. Picturing Economic and Cultural Futures 15. Sustainment by Design (as Redirective Practice): 'Dig Where You Stand' 16. Challenges of the Communication of Sustainment and Futuring Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful service across a broad range of disciplines in both the sciences and the humanities, including philosophy, history, cosmology, biology, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, economics, art history, literary theory. They are also richly, albeit sometimes treacherously, present in the everyday human realm of how our lives are both imagined and lived: in the crossroads' scenario of decision-making, the place of regret in retrospective assessments of paths taken and not taken, and, at the outer limit, as the wish not to have been born. Christopher Prendergast take us on a dizzying exploratory journeyTrade ReviewHere’s a counterfactual: if this book were less good, it would be easier to review. It’s quite rare to come across a book like this which is, quite simply, for the humanities. If we imagine a world where this book had no audience, where, say, the meanings of Petrarch’s climb and Ignatius’ indecision were forgotten, it would be a much colder and less wise one. * Times Higher Education *[These] books are sophisticated straws in a rising wind. * Times Literary Supplement (joint-reviewed with Things That Didin't Happen) *[These books] add up to more than the sum of two deeply meditated, extensively researched projects ... [They] invite more interesting questions than I can count. * London Review of Books (joint-reviewed with Telling It Like It Wasn't) *Christopher Prendergast’s wide-ranging and philosophically informed investigation of counterfactuals is a revelation. Counterfactual conjectures, we learn, wend their way through centuries of Western thought on numerous topics: the vagaries of chance, the mysteries of time, and the fragility of personal identity. They link metaphysical speculation to utopian longing and the pain of personal regret. Prendergast’s encounters with them reveal both their ubiquity and their strangeness. -- Catherine Gallagher, Emerita Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California Berkeley, USAPrendergast uses the rich idea of counterfactuals as a point of departure for a deft exploration of key works of literature and philosophy. This is an intellectually adventurous and highly stimulating book. -- Andrew Huddleston, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, UK'In this witty and erudite book, Prendergast offers a startling range of reflections and analyses of the realm of possibility, bringing his command of sources from fiction and science, history and philosophy, to bear on fundamental questions of reality and truth, persuasion and evidence. The work offers an indispensable guide and caution to many of contemporary society's most pressing obsessions and errors: the strange appeal of fantasy and the power of the fake. In raising so clearly the ways to deal with the puzzle of what might have been, whether with regret or with relief, this is a major accomplishment of a literary critic and scholar at the top of his game. -- Simon Schaffer, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Conjectural Breeze of Time Chapter One: A Naile, a Nose and a Traitor Chapter Two: Just the Facts, Ma’am Chapter Three: Flying Blind: Angelus Novus and Allegory of Prudence Chapter Four: Crossroads: Three Tales, Three Gamblers Chapter Five: Looking Back: from Metanoia to Buyer’s Regret Chapter Six: Not, Never or Forever Being Me Chapter Seven: On the Run with Fernando Pessoa Index

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Book SynopsisA step-by-step guide to two essential tools for textile and fashion designers. Designer and educator Robert Hume guides you from novice to expert through 20 carefully crafted projects. You'll start by mastering layers and custom brushes, learning about stripes and weaves, scanning and manipulation before moving on to repeats, colorways, and simple geometry. Next, transformations, filters and effects become tools for your personal creativity and you'll explore varied approaches to drawing garments. Finally, you'll learn about key layout and presentation techniques in both programs. There's also advice on sharing, communication and output, and help with diagnosing and correcting common problems. Files for many of the projects are available from: www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/fashion-and-textile-design-with-photoshop-and-illustrator-2eSeven case studies showcase the work and creative thinking of innovative professional designers. These designers offer insight and inspiration to helpTrade ReviewThis is an excellent book. It will be an essential text for [my course module] … It’s well written, illustrated and easy to follow. * Timothy Bones, West Kent College, UK *This book is a game changer in that it is one of the few offerings which focus on what students want to know. Every page is easy to follow with very clear diagrams and illustrations and an excellent breakdown of each task. I wish I’d had this book when I was learning how to use the software! -- Naomi Austin, Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design and Promotion, The University of Sunderland, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction How to use this book Why choose Photoshop and Illustrator for designing for textiles and fashion The differences between Photoshop and Illustrator The projects 1. Level 1 A Brief Explanation of Photoshop Terms Project 1: Photoshop: Layers and Custom Brushes Project 2: Photoshop: New Ways of Drawing Project 3: Photoshop: Scanning Drawings for Editing and Recoloring Project 4: Photoshop: Vector Drawing and Brushes Applied as Strokes Project 5: Photoshop: Stripes and Weaves Case Study: Wallace Sewell 2. Level 2 Project 6: Photoshop: Repeats and Colorways Project 7: Color Theory in Practice Project 8: Photoshop: Fills, Textures, and Layers Project 9: Illustrator: Paths to Fashion Project 10: Simple Geometry in Illustrator Project 11: Repeat Patterns in Illustrator Case Study: Nadine Bucher Project 12: Illustrator: Photoshop and Filters Case Study: Tord BoontJe 3. Level 3 Project 13: Illustrator: The Blob and Art Brushes Project 14: Generating Complexity with Simple Tools Project 15: Illustrator: Flats Project 16: Illustrator: All the Trimmings Project 17: Illustrator: Drawing with a Silhouette Project 18: Illustrator: Layout Project 19: Illustrator: Presentation Project 20: Photoshop: Presentation Case Study: Printfresh Studio Case Study: C&A Designers 4. Sharing, Communication and Output User-friendly Formats Output The Importance of Color Communication Case Study: A Factory Perspective Case Study: A Designer’s Perspective Appendix Help and Some Problem Diagnosis

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Book SynopsisReading Photographs is a clear and inspiring introduction to theories of representation and visual analysis and how they can be applied to photography. Introducing the development of photography and different approaches to reading images, the book looks at elements such as identity, gaze, psychoanalysis, voyeurism and aesthetics.Striking visual examples are used to illustrate the text and engaging case studies delve deeper into issues raised within each chapter, with brief activity points to allow the reader to apply relevant theories to their own practice.Table of ContentsChapter 1: What is a photograph?Invention: the marriage of chemistry and opticsTime and lightUses and applicationsThe camera: an evolutionCase study: Chuck CloseChapter 2: Reading the signsWhere do meanings come from?Language: words, sounds and imagesSemiotics: the study of signsIdeology: ideas, practices and beliefsCase study: Anthony BarrettChapter 3: Truth and liesWhat is ‘real’?Representation and realityFacts and fictionCase study: Thomas HoepkerChapter 4: IdentityPeople and portraitsSignifying identityLookingThe bodyCase study: Marc GarangerChapter 5: Big Brother is watching youThe modern worldThe bad, the mad and the ‘other’Surveillance society: the PanopticonWho is looking at whom?Public spaces – private livesCase study: Shizuka YokomizoChapter 6: AestheticsBut is it art?Photography cannot be artWhat is art?Photography as art – the history of an ideaInto postmodernism Case study: Richard BillinghamConclusionBibliographyReferencesIndexPicture creditsAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisPatternmaking for Dress Design covers patternmaking techniques for 9 iconic dress designs, focusing not only on the concepts needed to draft patterns, but also uniquely exploring the history of each garment design to reveal what lies behind their enduring appeal today. Each chapter provides easy-to-follow patterns for the sheath, empire, shift, trapeze, wrap, strapless, shirtwaist, cheongsam and coatdress.Trade ReviewPatternmaking for Dress Design is a marvelous combination of history, and why these dresses are considered iconic, and practice, detailing how to create some of the most popular styles in fashion and theatre design. Perfect for novice patternmakers, the instructions and illustrations are clear and provide many tips on not only how to draft the pattern, but how to achieve the perfect fit. -- Lisa Borton, Costume Designer, University of Michigan-Flint, USAThis is an essential pattern-cutting manual for designers who wish to create iconic dress styles. Written in an accessible way, it provides clear and easy-to-follow instructions, as well as exciting illustrations of the patterns and the garments themselves. -- Dr Kevin Almond, Lecturer in Fashion, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Empire-waist Dress 2. The Sheath Dress 3. The Shift Dress 4. The Trapeze Dress 5. The Wrap Dress 6. The Strapless Dress 7. The Shirtwaist Dress 8. The Coat Dress 9. The Cheongsam Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgements/Image Credits

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Book SynopsisTextiles and Fashion explores the integration oftextile design with fashion, showing the manyways designers use fibre, fabric construction andsurface treatments within a garment and on thebody. It begins with a brief history of textiles infashion, showing the links with technical innovationand social developments. You'll then briefly learnabout the processes of textile design, includingethical and environmental considerations, aswell as fibre production, dyeing and finishintechniques, before moving on to making the most ofdifferent surface treatments and the ways in whichcolour and trend influence fashion and textiles. This 3rd edition includes updated coverage ofemerging technologies, including smart textilesand 3D printing, and interviews with fashiondesigners to offer insight into how they use textilesin their work. Overall, this is the ideal introductionto using textiles within a fashion context.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Textile Sample A very brief history of textiles Future fabrics Designing textiles Basic textile design principles Textiles into production Interview: Duncan Cheetham Projects: Drawing and mark making 2. Fibres Natural fibres Man-made fibres New fibre developments Yarn Dyeing Dyeing effects Finishing processes Interview: Manel Torres Project: Finishing techniques 3. Fabric Construction Weave Developed weave structures Knit Other forms of construction Interview: Tina Lutz Project: Design development 4. Surface Treatments Print Printing media Pattern Embroidery and fabric manipulation Embroidery techniques Embellishment Interview: James Stone Project: Reinventing a classic 5. Colour and Trends Colour Colour and design The trend industry Flow of information Interview: Philippa Wagner Project: Trends 6. Textiles Used in Fashion Design Choosing fabrics for fashion design Function Aesthetics Cost and availability Market level and genre Designing with textiles Garment construction Interview: Anne Sofie Madsen Project: Deconstruct – reconstruct Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Useful resources

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Book SynopsisAcross digital and print media, editorial illustrators create visuals to support text and convey ideas, but there is more to these illustrations than meets the eye.Internationally-recognised illustrator and educator Andy Selby takes you through the importance of context and content when responding to editorial illustration briefs, explaining how understanding of visual communication concepts leads to more successful illustrations - all while under the time pressure of editorial briefs. Covering ideation, development and execution, this book includes:- A short history of illustration as a political and social tool- How to use visual language, symbolism and satire and to what purpose- Representation of identity, ethics and society - both for impact and sensitive designs- Research, commercial judgement and experimentation- Professional conduct, self-promotion, responsibilities and plagiarism So whether you're illustrating a news story, summarising new scientific discoveries or creating aTrade ReviewAllows us to get closer to the figure of a professional who is often not sufficiently known or valued * Blog de l'Escola de Llibreria *For those looking to delve further into the process, power and objectives of editorial illustration, illustrator and professor Andrew Selby created this in-depth reference on the practice. * Communication Arts *Table of ContentsPreface: What is editorial illustration? Part 1. Context Theory History Current Issues and Debates Part 2. Content Types of editorial illustration Establishing a working relationship Clever thinking An illustrative autopsy A universal visual language Part 3. Creation Promotion Editorial illustration: The commissioning process Creative environments Visual research Ideation Visual decision-making Commercial practice considerations Delivery Acceptance and rejection Reflection Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Resource Base Index

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Book SynopsisWhat can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of art. Embracing contemporary painting, it examines topics such as the post-medium condition and the digital divide, and the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Amy Sillman and Katharina Grosse. Illustrated with 24 colour plates and highly readable throughout, Philosophy of Painting provides a philosophically rigorous defence of the relevance of painting in the 21st century, making an original contribution to the major ideas informing painting as an art. Here is a clear and coherent account of the contemporary significance of painting and the pressures and possibilities that distinguish it from other art forms.Trade ReviewPhilosophy of Painting fills an important void. Jason Gaiger shows why it's important to think about paintings – not only newer media such as photography or films – and what contemporary paintings offer in our own time. Beautifully and clearly written – a gem that brings theoretical issues to life. * Sonia Sedivy, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada *This book will appeal to both experts and non-experts. It deftly combines philosophical insight and rigour with art historical substance and detail. I can’t think of a better introduction to the philosophy of painting. * Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, UK *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Philosophical Questions 2. A Window onto the World 3. Surface and Subject 4. Resemblance and Denotation 5. The Specifically Visual 6. Modernism and the Avant-Garde 7. Contemporary Painting Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief? How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more. Now in its second edition, the highly popular Design Thinking for Visual Communication identifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work. Step-by-step guidance for each part of the process is highlighted by real-life case studies, enabling the student to see teaching in practice. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favour of a useable approach to design as a problem-solving activity.The new edition now includes contributions from a broader international range of design practices and adds depth to existing case studies by looking in greater detail at some of the processes used.Trade Review'I have adopted this book. It provides a great structure for this course which has a variety of students from design, advertising and illustration programs.' -- Rosanne Gibel, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, USA.'Beautifully designed and filled with excellent examples.' -- Richard Barlow, St Cloud State University, USA.'The format and design of the book is very good for getting the information across ... the diagrams and images are extremely helpful in explaining the concepts.' -- Rebecca Potts, Bronx River Art Center, USA.'I like this book, as well as the others books in this series, because of the excellent examples of designs to illustrate the text. The design is clear, and makes the book easy to use. The different paper stocks not only help with orientation, but provide great examples of when to do this. A great addition to the Basics series.' -- Emily Wood, Central Saint Martins, UK.Packed with examples from students and professionals and fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, Design Thinking for Visual Communication offers an essential exploration of design thinking. The new 2nd edition now includes contributions from a broader international range of design practices and adds depth to existing case studies by looking in greater detail at some of the processes used. * Sir Read-A-Lot *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter one: Stages of Thinking The design process; Stage one - Define; Stage two - Research; Stage three - Ideate; Stage four - Prototype; Stage five - Select; Stage six - Implement; Stage seven - Learn; Industry view: NB Studio. Chapter two: Research Identifying drivers; Information gathering; Target groups; Samples and feedback; Industry view: Tanner Christensen. Chapter three: Idea Generation Basic design directions; Questions and answers; Themes of thinking; Inspiration and references; Brainstorming; Value; Inclusion; Sketching; Industry view: Planning Unit. Chapter four: Refinement Thinking in images; Thinking in signs; Appropriation; Humor; Personification; Visual metaphors; Modification; Thinking in words; Type 'faces'; Thinking in shapes; Thinking in color; Thinking in technology; Industry view: Lavernia & Cienfuegos Chapter five: Prototyping Developing designs; 'Types' of prototype; Vocabulary; What do do if you get stuck; Industry view: Second Story. Chapter six: Implementation Format; Materials; Finishing; Media; Scale; Series/Continuity; Industry view: Design is Play. Exercises Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisIn this essential introduction to contemporary printed textile design, designer and educator Alex Russell explores creative and commercial studio practice, including:- developing sophisticated skills with image and colour- how to make effective use of context in your work- strategies for a career in designYou'll learn how history and technology shape print design, plus how to balance innovation with industry requirements, including fashion, home interiors, giftware and stationery. There's practical advice on developing a professional portfolio, and how good communication skills can get your work noticed. This updated edition includes expanded sections on digital design and social media, and their impact on portfolio development, manufacturing, and promotion, as well as advice on establishing an ethical, sustainable practice for the future.Table of Contents1. An Overview of Printed Textile Design History The Digital Revolution Environmental and Ethical Issues Professional Contexts 2. The Creative Design Process The Brief Research, Development and Final Designs Colour Design Composition 3. Technology, Tools and Professional Practice Printing Technologies and Design Design Tools, Space and Process Professional Practice 4. Designing for the World Design and Industry Design and Global Issues Design and Communication 5. Design Style and Content Design Categories Colourways and Co-Ordinates Balancing Tradition and Innovation 6. Working as a Designer Building Collections Building Portfolios Building a Career Bibliography Glossary Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis guide for aspiring and exhibiting photographers alike combines practice and concept to provide a roadmap to navigating, and succeeding in, the fine art photography marketplace locally, domestically, and internationally. Join former New York gallery owner, international curator, and fine art photographer Thomas Werner as he shares his experiences and insights from leading curators, gallerists, collectors, auctioneers, exhibiting photographic artists, and more. Learn how to identify realistic goals, maximize results, work with galleries and museums, write grants, develop strong nuanced imagery, and build a professional practice in a continually evolving field. Featuring dozens of photographs from international practitioners, and a robust set of resources, this book will ensure you have the tools to give you the opportunity for success in any marketplace.Whether you are a student, aspiring photographic or video artist, or a photographer changing careersTrade Review"Thomas Werner is a successful working photographer all over the globe, he was a seasoned professor at one of the world's most prestigious art schools for over 20 years and has experience as a former gallery owner in New York. This trifecta makes him a unicorn in the art world, perfectly positioned to give advice and navigate all of those worlds seamlessly." Sarah Hasted, Founder/Director of International Art Advisory LLC"I have been working and collaborating with Thomas Werner since the mid 90's, he is one of the most knowledgeable people in our field. His devotion as an educator together with his never-ending ability to evolve and excel across diverse creative fields throughout his career has not only created a wonderful opportunity to acquire vast knowledge, but also the ability to guide and nurture young artists."Elinor Carucci, Photographic Artist"Thomas Werner is eminently qualified in the fields of fine art photography and education. His thorough knowledge of the photo world, his professional experience and his substantial talents make this book a must read for those interested in the world of fine art photography. Part historian, part curator, part educator, this book combines the very best of the author, who is at the top of his game."Debbe Goldstein, Private Art Dealer, ArtRep-DGTable of Contents1. A Brief History: Fine Art Photography and the Marketplace 2. The Art Markets 3. Gallery and Museum Teams 4. The Exhibition 5. Contacting Potential Partners: Marketing and Promotion 6. Grant Writing 7. The Artist

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Book SynopsisPhotography and Resistance tells the stories of the people who resisted fascism in Europe by taking or securing photographs.It complements Janina Struk's ground-breaking 2004 book Photographing the Holocaust, which has become a standard text on images of the Holocaust. Now she focuses on images taken at enormous risk by those resisting the Nazis, whether political activists or volunteers in underground networks, workers in photographic studios or public institutions, prisoners in the concentration camps, professional photographers, or individuals â all of whom believed in photography as a form of resistance. It includes images never seen before, and accounts of actions and heroism barely reported in the past. Many images were clandestinely taken, and the book discusses the means photographers employed and the motivation that compelled them to risk their lives to compile the evidence. The book also questions whether the importance of their contribution to the def

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Book SynopsisAfter the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti. It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history shaped - and continues to shape - Rome's contemporary cityscape in powerful ways, and examines what this can tell us about the persistence of troubling political and historical legacies in the built environment. Italy's fascist period (1922-1943) is perhaps the least-understood episode of Rome's architectural history. Yet paradoxically those two decades have, arguably more than any other, defined our contemporary view of Rome's world-famous ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque urban landscapes. The book examines the ways in which the fascist regime sought to remake Rome according to its own vision of the past, and surveys the afterlife of Mussolini's architectural and urban projects, from the Roman Masterplan to the Foro ITrade ReviewThis book is not only a rich compendium of case studies of difficult heritage but also a significant contribution to an understanding of postwar architectural culture. Peeling back and reconstructing layers of meaning associated with key works of the Fascist Regime in Rome, the book will make the city more comprehensible and richer in historical associations. Flavia Marcello has illuminated this study with a humanist understanding that would not have been possible a few years ago. * Tim Benton, Open University, UK *After the Fall provides a detailed account of how key sites of fascist Rome have evolved and endured in the last century. Comprised of concise encyclopedic entries on monuments, buildings and sites, it will be a useful guide for all those interested in what has become of fascist Rome. * Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma, USA *Flavia Marcello’s absorbing and richly detailed book explores the ongoing impact of Fascism and Italy’s evolving relationship to its history on Rome’s urban development and built environment. It will be invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in Rome’s historical and contemporary urban topography or in Italy’s complex and contested relationship with its Fascist past. * Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Terms and Acronyms Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mussolini’s Mark: Tracing the Legacy of Fascism in Rome’s Post-war Urban Planning Chapter 3: The Architecture of Fascist Rome between Politics and Practicality Chapter 4: The Fascist Phoenix: Virgilio Testa and the Resurrection of EUR Chapter 5: Mothers, Martyrs and Military Men: The Changing Meanings of Rome’s Fascist Monuments Chapter 6: Aspirations and Illusions of Control: Re-contextualising Rome’s Fascist Epigraphy A Conclusion for a Centenary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMiranda Garrett is Exhibitions Manager at the Bank of England Museum, UK.Zoë Thomas is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Wider World at the University of Birmingham, UK.Trade ReviewThis insightful edited collection extends and enhances our understanding of the relationships between artistic endeavour, commercial enterprise and political activism ... An invaluable contribution to understandings of visual and material culture and art and business history, as well as to suffrage and women's studies. * History Today *I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which has been beautifully produced. In a series of engaging chapters the authors contribute significantly to our knowledge about the suffrage movement covering aspects of the campaign that have been often overlooked. It also gives a voice to the many women artists who are often lost in political histories or histories on women’s art. * Women's History Review *[The book's] careful curation presents an insightful study of the multiform ways in which art and politics intersected in the suffrage campaign, both harmoniously and problematically, giving a holistic and rounded impression of the intricate landscape that suffrage artists had to navigate. Furthermore, after celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act last year, it once again places art and artists at the centre of a reinvigorated scholarship on British women and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. * Twentieth Century British History *A fascinating collection of engaging and informative essays that extend our knowledge about the centrality of the arts to the women's suffrage movement. * June Purvis, Emerita Professor of Women's and Gender History at the University of Portsmouth, UK *This collection transforms our understanding of artistic contributions to the women’s suffrage campaign by detailing the experiences of artists, consumers, campaigners and propagandists. A genuinely pioneering work, it illuminates how women balanced their professional lives as artists with their feminist activism, as well as bringing to life the variety of visual culture designed and made during this period across Britain and Ireland. This innovative and timely collection should find a wide and appreciative audience. * Senia Paseta, Professor of Modern History at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Jane Beckett and Deborah Cherry Introduction by Miranda Garrett and Zoë Thomas Part One: Institutional politics Chapter One: Zoë Thomas, ‘I loathe the thought of suffrage sex wars being brought into it’: Institutional conservatism in early twentieth-century women's art organizations Chapter Two: Liz Arthur, The artistic, social and suffrage networks of Glasgow School of Art's women artists and designers Chapter Three: Tara Morton, ‘An Arts and Crafts society, working for the enfranchisement of women’: Unpicking the political threads of the Suffrage Atelier, 1909–1914 Part Two: Enterprise and Marketing Chapter Four: Miranda Garrett, Window smashing and window draping: Suffrage and interior design Chapter Five: Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Our readers are careful buyers’: Creating goods for the suffrage market Chapter Six: Kenneth Florey, English suffrage badges and the marketing of the campaign Part Three: Paintings on display Chapter Seven: Rosie Broadley, Painting suffragettes: Portraits and the militant movement Chapter Eight: Krista Cowman, Suffrage attacks on art, 1913–1914 Part Four: Representing suffrage Chapter Nine: Joseph McBrinn, The spectacle of masculinity: Men and the visual culture of the suffrage campaign Chapter Ten: Janice Helland, An Irish harp and sleeping beauty: The politics of suffrage in the textile art of Una Taylor and Ann Macbeth Chapter Eleven: Chloe Ward, Images of empathy: Representations of force feeding in Votes for Women

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Book SynopsisThis is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of eugenics which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. Eugenics, Aristogenics, Photography takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized reality of the New England social-caste experience and explains how, when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class, the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric.Trade Review"Clearly argued, thoroughly documented book. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers."—Choice"Belden-Adams shows us the importance of reflecting today on photography’s construction of social privilege and investment in American nativism. Ascribing such work to college portraiture from the turn of the twentieth century, she reminds us that our photographic practices have always been political." —Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College, USA "Belden-Adams’s exceedingly well-researched book dives deep into the problematic waters of nineteenth-century eugenics photography and related uses of the medium. What she finds is that defining racial, criminal, and honorific types through photography held far more purchase in the US than previously known. But her study also shows that the instability of eugenics logic led to spectacular failures of the resulting pictures, particularly as compared to counter efforts at the subtle queering of photography at the same time among similar constituencies." —Andrés Mario Zervigón, Professor of the History of Photography, Rutgers University, USA"Clearly argued, thoroughly documented book. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers."—Choice"Belden-Adams shows us the importance of reflecting today on photography’s construction of social privilege and investment in American nativism. Ascribing such work to college portraiture from the turn of the twentieth century, she reminds us that our photographic practices have always been political." —Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, Colby College, USA "Belden-Adams’s exceedingly well-researched book dives deep into the problematic waters of nineteenth-century eugenics photography and related uses of the medium. What she finds is that defining racial, criminal, and honorific types through photography held far more purchase in the US than previously known. But her study also shows that the instability of eugenics logic led to spectacular failures of the resulting pictures, particularly as compared to counter efforts at the subtle queering of photography at the same time among similar constituencies." —Andrés Mario Zervigón, Professor of the History of Photography, Rutgers University, USA Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Harvard’s ‘Class’ Portraits: Composite Pictures and a New England ‘Aristogenic’ Agenda 3. A ‘Dandy’ Masculinity?: Establishing and Respecting Cisgender Norms, Using Photography 4. Social Poise, Demure Confidence: Swaying College Women to be the Essential Players in Positive Eugenics 5. Biometrics, Posture Pictures: ‘We Did What We Were Told’ 6. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisHow do fashion designers conceive of, develop and ultimately launch commercially and creatively successful collections? Developing a Fashion Collection walks you through the process, exploring research techniques, sources of inspiration, forecasting trends and designing for different markets. From couture to high street, knitwear to accessories and covering the implications of online shopping there''s advice on every aspect of creating your collection through 27 insightful interviews with international practitioners. Interviewees include John Mooney, Brand Creative Director at ASOS and Jane Palmer Williams, Head of Executive Development at LVMH.This 3rd edition also covers silhouette, fittings and final samples, sustainable practice, developing high street collections, fabric selection and finding inspiration through vintage designs.Trade ReviewA feast of visual stimuli, this inspirational guide offers insider information and intelligent references from industry-recognized professionals. -- Hywel Davies, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UKA clear road map with inspiring examples and industry insights, this new edition provides an up-to-date, holistic view of what ought to be considered when building a successful fashion collection. An essential read for our fashion design students. -- Aki Choklat, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, USAThis book demystifies the fundamental process of developing a collection and will be a core text for any fashion design course, and a ‘go to’ for young aspiring fashion designers with its combination of essential terms and best practices. -- Leslie Holden, Co-Founder of the Digital Fashion GroupThis book supports the reader, from how to select research ideas and use them, to developing these ideas into something relevant to the final product. I would recommend to all students. -- Adrien Roberts, Accademia Costume and Moda, Italy and trustee of Graduate Fashion FoundationTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. What is a Collection? How to Start a Collection Market Research Inspiration Fabric Sourcing Silhouette Development Forecasting Trends Archiving Editing Collections The Team Fittings and Samples Showing the collection Interviews: Martin Raymond, The Future Laboratory Steven Philip The Mr. Steven Philip Catherine Teatum & Rob Jones, Teatum Jones Rebekah Roy Joshua Kane 2. Collections and Their Influences Background Historical Cultural Conceptual Functional Political Futuristic Artistic Sustainable Interviews: Fiona Stuart, Rellik Dr. Noki Tracy Mulligan, People Tree Duran Lantink Bianca Saunders 3. Designing for Different Markets Haute Couture Ready-to-wear Designer Labels Luxury Brands Designer Collaborations High Street Online Shopping Interviews: Giles Deacon Sadie Clayton Charles Jeffrey Maria Olofsgard, COS John Mooney, ASOS Jane Palmer Williams, LVMH 4. Specialist Collections Childrenswear Knitwear Print Denim Active Sportswear Corporate wear Interviews: Eva Karayiannis, Caramel Baby & Child Matty Bovan Nicolas Garcia, Roberto Cavalli Charli Cohen Jonathan Cheung, Levi’s Design Will Broome 5. The Student Collection The Brief Your Portfolio Research and Development Presentation Interviews: Saskia Lenaerts Victoria Lyons Megan Greenfield Edie Ashley Lynn Sungurtekin Margret Sam Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAre you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and tools could enhance your research? Have you thought about ways to spark and engage in academic conversations on social media? Have you wondered how digital technologies are internationalizing the field of fashion and textile studies? Digital Research Methods in Fashion and Textile Studies presents the reader with a variety of digital methodologies to help build skills in searching for, analyzing, and discussing vintage design, photography, and writing on fashion, as well as historic and ethnographic dress and textile objects themselves. Each chapter focuses upon a different method, problem, or research site, including: - Maximalism and mixed-methods approaches to research - Searching large databases effectively - Pattern recognition and visual searching- New trends in academic communication - Critical reading, use, and citation Trade ReviewMany undergraduates are invested in and knowledgeable about pop culture, material culture, and fashion, and that is where Sikarskie's book can prove invaluable beyond the fashion and textile disciplines: it is rife with excellent sample searches … Summing Up: Essential. All readers. * CHOICE *... an essential guidebook for fashion studies scholars. Engaging and clearly written, this comprehensive book covers everything from blogging to coding. Sikarskie’s mixed-method approach is valuable to students and will refresh the practices of established researchers. * Colleen Hill, curator of costume and accessories, The Museum at FIT *Digital Research Methods ... is a breath of fresh air. Sikarskie delineates the cross-disciplinary nature of digital fashion and textile research in a fun and engaging manner, providing an invaluable resource for students and seasoned scholars alike. * Clare Sauro, Drexel University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: A New Maximalism Unit I: Searching 2 Text-based Searching Strategies Case Study: In Search of Kate Moss 3 Visual Searching Unit II: Connecting 4 Blogging, Research, and Instagram 5 Critical Reading of Social Media Texts Case Study: Reading the Moschino "Capsule Collection" Unit III: Visualizing 6 Data Visualization 7 Mapping Case Study: Coding Fashion is Spinach Conclusions: Responding to the Critique of Minimalism Post-script: Maximalist Muse: A Conversation with Kristen Bateman Bibliography Glossary Index Join the Conversation on Instagram!

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Book SynopsisThrough ten detailed case studies on groundbreaking brands like Vivienne Westwood, Vera Wang, Levi's, and The Gap Inc., Fashion Brand Stories shows how fashion retailers and designers use storytelling to establish and maintain relationships with their customers.These entertaining case studies explore the evolution of each brand as a cultural entity with its own carefully crafted personality. Aided by interviews with industry professionals, you'll learn how brands start out, grow and encounter success or failure and how to apply those hard-won lessons to your own thoughts on branding. This beautifully illustrated third edition covers the changing role of social media, celebrity endorsements, quality over quantity, and more ethical sourcing, manufacturing, and consumption.Instructor's resources to accompany this edition are available at bloomsbury.pub/fashion-brand-stories-3eTrade ReviewYou don't have to follow fashion to enjoy Fashion Brand Stories ... Reading feels like strolling along a sparkling shopping corridor as Hancock explains how retailers gain prominence, revealing the strategy and mythology behind what we see in the windows. * Broad Street Review *A unique overview of how brands develop, and whether their stories authentically evolve or are cleverly designed. * Dr. Karen Cross, Academic Strategic Lead in the School of Creative and Cultural Business, Robert Gordon University, UK *Fashion Brand Stories is an insightful text for anyone who wishes to understand the importance of design, critical cultural theory, and storytelling as methods of creating fashion brands and a must for creatives and business professionals, who will benefit from its engaging views on consumer brand culture. * Dr. Vicki Karaminas, Professor of Fashion, Massey University, New Zealand *Dr. Hancock gives the reader a book suffused with contemporary (and well-known) brand stories as an engaging introduction to key concepts in fashion and apparel studies. * Dr. Jessica Strübel, Associate Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, The University of Rhode Island, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Once Upon a Time: Brand/Story Fashion and Popular Culture: Interview with Jessica Strübel What Is Fashion Versus Style? What Is Fashion Branding? Public Relations Branding: Interview with Anne Peirson-Smith Fashion Branding and Storytelling The Goals of this Book Moving Beyond Fashion Brand Stories Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 2. The Past, Present, and Future: A Conceptual Overview Postmodernism, Philosophy, and Theory Putting It All Together: Rhetorical Fashion, Encoding/Decoding, and Hyperreality Postmodern Branding Semantics Hypermodernism and Fashion Forms Meaning and Individual Style Branding and Consumer Theories Context, Consumers, and Meaning Future Consumption of Brands: Interview with Lorynn Divita Cultural Branding Theories Storytelling and Success Brands Lifestyle Merchandising and Emotional Meanings Scouting Future Fashion and Patterns: Interview with Krista Lowther Shifting Views and Consumers Speaking Out Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 3. Democratization of Merchandising: Ralph Lauren History of a Merchandiser The Polo Line Films and Fragrance Redefining the Lifestyle and Going Global Luxury Branding: Interview with David Loranger The Empire Grows Ralph Lauren Home, Out of Africa, and the New York Flagship Store From Exotic Fragrances to the Rugby Store Innovation and Scrutiny Philanthropy and Stardom Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 4. Rebel Brand Style: Vivienne Westwood A Marriage of Music and Fashion Queer and Punk Influence on Brands: Interview with Marvin Taylor Life Changes and Growth God Save the Planet: A Focus on Philanthropy Street Style Success and Subcultural Leadership What Will the Future Hold? Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 5. A Designer of Branded Occasions: Vera Wang Vera Wang: Wedding Expert and Role Model Who Is Vera Wang? Vera Wang’s Branding Story Fashioning Personal Brand Success: Interview with Amanda Buchanan Wang Builds Her Brand Name Vera Wang’s Mass Merchandising The Career Continues Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 6. The Branding of Masstige: The Gap, Inc. Gap History and the Sweat Wall New Fashion Gatekeeping: Individuals of Style and Everyone in Khaki Branding Mass Fashion and Off-Price Retail: Interview with Nancy Mair Into the Twenty-First-Century Groove Labor Controversy and Change Moving Forward Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 7. Celebrity Collaborations and Philanthropy: MAC History of Estée Lauder Estée Lauder Today Branding Sneakers: Interview with Sean Williams Makeup Art Cosmetics: MAC Philanthropic Branding with a Twist: VIVA GLAM Celebrity Endorsement, Collaborations, and Genderless Boundaries Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 8. Retro-Branding: Levi Strauss & Co. History of Levi Strauss & Co. Denim Overalls Become Blue Jeans Street Style Influence: Interview with Brent Luvaas Making Statements: 501 Jeans and Brand/Story Sales, Strategy, and a Return to Heritage Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 9. Branding Affordable Eyecare: Warby Parker The Eyeglasses Market Luxottica Silhouette International and Viva International Marchon and Safilo Charmant, Marcolin, and De Rigo A Branding King of Retail Operations: Interview with Michael J. Edwards Doing Things Differently: Warby Parker Warby Parker Moving Forward with Vision Falling from B Corp Status COVID-19: Being There for Consumers Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration 10. Rebranding American Manufacturing: Shinola History of Shinola The Product Line and Education Watches Paper Journals: Edwards Brothers Malloy, Michigan Bicycles: Waterford Precision Cycles, Wisconsin Shinola Jewelry, Leather Goods, and Pet Accessories Sustainable Design and Branding: Interview with Chris Baeza Shinola Controversy “Bougie Crap” and Diversification Discussion Questions Expand Your Knowledge Further Exploration

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Book SynopsisWith a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a liTrade ReviewExcellent history… Among the most fascinating aspects of this work are Naismith’s careful and cogent explanations on the interpretation of findings and artifacts. * CHOICE *Naismith’s service to old London is heroic. In carefully sorting and untangling its post-Roman rebirth he allows a crucial phase in its long life to take its rightful place in the annals of the great and monstrous city. * The Spectator *Impeccably researched, engagingly written and handsomely presented ... this is a timely reminder that the prominence of London was historically contingent rather than inevitable. * BBC History Magazine *With his deft use of archaeology, the tenuous literary sources and numismatic evidence ... Naismith manages to weave together a very effective account of London’s political and economic development. * Literary Review *Written with an evocative turn of phrase and a sharp eye for interesting detail, Citadel of the Saxons is packed full of information, and impressive in its scope. * Current Archaeology *An essential, impressively informative, and core addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, college, and university library Medieval Studies collections, "Citadel of the Saxons" is a non-fiction history that reads as smoothly as the most well crafted novel. * Library Bookwatch *[The book] give[s] us a strong sense of the richness of early medieval urbanism. * Early Medieval Europe *'Citadel of the Saxons is the first comprehensive treatment of Anglo- Saxon London. Rory Naismith ranges widely across archaeology, coinage and written sources – showing an impressive command of multiple sub-disciplines in the process – to piece together a fresh picture of the early medieval metropolis. Engagingly written yet authoritative, this is everything a history book should be!' -- Levi Roach, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Exeter, author of Æthelred: The Unready‘No one can know yet to what degree Brexit will affect the fortunes of England’s capital. But Rory Naismith’s riveting history of Anglo-Saxon London is a reminder of how – despite all that the city suffered during its first millennium, and the rivalries with which it had to contend – it survived such that possession of it emerged as the key to power during the Norman Conquest. Sacked by Boudicca in the first century, deserted by the Romans in the fifth, economically outdone by Ipswich in the seventh, and overshadowed both by the metropolitan status of Canterbury and York and by the royal glamour King Alfred and his successors bestowed on Winchester, London nonetheless emerged in 1066 as the place where Duke William needed to be accepted and where it was essential for him to stage his coronation. The strength of Rory Naismith’s narrative derives from his mastery of the disparate sources needed to understand London’s developing success. The author’s deep knowledge of the complexities of Anglo-Saxon coinage is matched in this book by an acute sense of the importance of the recent archaeological discoveries that have revealed how the city took shape within, and beyond, and then again within its ancient Roman walls. Anyone who loves London – that “place of the overflowing river” (which is probably the ancient meaning of its name) – will want to buy this superb book.’ -- Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow and Former Lecturer in History, St Peter’s College, Oxford, author of A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons and of Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede‘Rory Naismith in his new book displays remarkable control of an extraordinarily diverse range of evidence and constructs a narrative with many unfamiliar details and dimensions. His story begins in Roman Britain, and extends here to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. By virtue of its position on the river Thames, and at the hub of a network of roads, London continued to prosper throughout the Anglo-Saxon period. It was always, the author shows, at the centre of events and was renowned too as a significant centre of commerce. From the foundation of St Paul’s to the building of Westminster Abbey, Dr Naismith ably and authoritatively guides the reader through all the city’s twists and turns, while at the same time bringing to life a rich supporting cast of Mercians and West Saxons, English and Danes. This is an original and compelling account of early London.’ -- Simon Keynes, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface List of Maps and Figures Abbreviations Timeline Introduction 1. Roman London and its End: First to Fifth Centuries AD 2. Among the Ruins: Post-Roman London 3. London between Kingdoms: c.600–800 4. Lundenwic: 'An Emporium for Many Nations' 5. Alfred the Great and the Vikings 6. London in the Tenth Century: c.900–75 7. Late Anglo-Saxon London 8. London in 1066: The Battle of Hastings and After Notes Select Bibliography Where to See Anglo-Saxon London Index

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Book SynopsisThere is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this ''atmospheric turn'' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme''s most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been available in German. This is the only translated version authorised by Böhme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. It is a work which will provide rich references and a theoretical framework for ongoing discussions about atmospheres and their relations to architectural and urban spaces. Combining philosophy with architecture, design, landscape design, scenography, music, art criticism, and visual arts, the essays together provide a key to the concepts that motivate Trade ReviewA fascinating collection of essays by the German philosopher Gernot Böhme . . . the essays are thoughtfully translated, and usefully introduced, in a way that will make Bohme’s work accessible and engaging to a wide audience. The message of the book is inspirational in its shift from the study of objects toward experience, and it will sit nicely among similarly motivated titles in Bloomsbury Academic’s impressively burgeoning architecture library. * Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, 18 *Table of ContentsForeword: ‘Ecstasies’ by Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh) Towards the Inside of Atmospheres: Translator’s Introduction Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic New Aesthetics Benjamin’s aura The concept of atmosphere in Hermann Schmitz’ philosophy The ecstasies of things Making atmospheres The critical potential of an aesthetics of atmospheres Conclusion The Ecstasies of Things: Ontology and aesthetics of thingness Subjectivism in aesthetics Terminological differentiations The prevalence of the thing in ontology Life within the world of things The closure of the thing within the main ontological models Alternative thing models The Thing Conclusion: Ontology and aesthetics Material Splendour: A Contribution to the Critique of Aesthetic Economy A golden ladle Material aesthetics Material beauty Particle board Internal design and invisible aesthetics Contribution to the critique of aesthetic economy Atmospheres in Architecture Weather and feelings Architecture and felt space Atmospheres as the subject matter of architecture The perception of architecture Architecture and space The atmosphere of a city Conclusion The Presence of Living Bodies in Space Developments in architecture and art history What is the space of bodily presence? Disposition Actuality and reality Atmospheres of Human Communication The utterly familiar Radiance Actualisation and disturbance of interpersonal atmospheres Contributions Learning to Live with Atmospheres: A new Aesthetic Humanist Education Objectives of aesthetic education Schiller’s On the aesthetic education of man in a series of letters Aesthetic humanist education under the conditions of technical civilisation and aesthetic economy Atmosphere as the object and medium of aesthetic education The Grand Concert of the World Introduction Modern art and the aesthetics of atmospheres The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space Music and soundscape, or the music of the soundscape Acoustic atmospheres Conclusion The Voice in Spaces of Bodily Presence Spatial sounds The rehabilitation of the voice The voice as an articulation of bodily presence Conclusion Light and Space The phenomenology of light Cleared space The space of light Lights in space Things appearing in light Light on things Lighting The Art of Staging as a Paradigm for an Aesthetics of Atmospheres Producing atmospheres Atmosphere – a well-known but extremely vague phenomenon Aesthetics of reception and production Fantastic art/unreliable fabrication Conclusion: the art of staging Church Atmospheres The numinous and the profanization of church spaces Sacred twilight – diaphanous light Silence and the Sublime Stone and space Genius Loci Afterword: ‘Atmospheres to Think About’ by Professor David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) References Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of the fashion industry has been well written as it relates to people who conform to certain physical norms and cultural stereotypes, whereas the inequality in access to the world of fashion has been largely ignored. Despite this lack of coverage, much work has taken place over the centuries to enable people who live with disability to participate in fashionable culture. This book tells that story via perspectives of notable historical figures, events and movements, and continues the discourse with a look at some of the contemporary developments in clothing and fashion.The Intersection of Fashion and Disability takes the long view, from early attempts to conceal unsightly' bodies of royalty and nobility via creative innovation through growing contemporary awareness of inclusive fashion and how future work can be driven by technology and cultural acceptance.Trade ReviewInfused in a historical context of adapted clothing designs, lies a recurrent reminder to each of us with disabilities that we deserve continued designs to assure our unadulterated inclusion in society. Kate’s decades of dedicated work will enable me, and other Occupational Therapy educators, to proliferate the future of dedicated and skilled therapists to join Kate’s efforts to promote a cultural change in the inclusion of all bodies, despite each person’s uniqueness. May the memory of my friend Birdie Minor continue to shine through many more women with disabilities as they advocate for disability rights adorned in clothing that allows them to feel whole. -- Paige Moore, Licensed Occupational Therapist and Adjunct Faculty at James Madison University and Mary Baldwin University, USAMarginalized fashion consumers are finally given voice in Kate Annett-Hitchcock’s hugely important book. This is fashion history as well as fashion present, the most timely analysis of fashion and disability that we all need to read. -- Dr Kate Strasdin, Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University, UKThe Intersection of Fashion and Disability provides great historical background, which I feel many of my students need before starting to design. -- Grace Jun, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Georgia, USAFinally! This is the book that I've been waiting for … Annett-Hitchcock's prose is itself a pleasure, and the book does a superb job of making accessible a fashion history for those new to the field, alongside original (and I must say fabulous) research and insights. By moving between case studies, historical narrative, and a dedicated analytic timeline, it moderates between history, aesthetics, economics, and sociology. -- Jessica Burstein, Associate Professor of English, University of Washington, USAAn essential text that illuminates an untold history, while crafting a blueprint for Disabled people to be creators, consumers and a collective within the fashion system. * Sinéad Burke, CEO & Founder, Tilting the Lens *Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary 1. Establishing Significance Introduction 1.1 Purpose of the book: It’s a fashion story! 1.2 Medical and social models of disability 1.3 Framing of disability fashion history Summary 2. Underpinnings: Events Prior to 1800 Introduction 2.1 Setting the stage for the historical discussion 2.2 Pre-eighteenth century 2.3 Impact of the Age of Enlightenment: 1740-1800 Summary Boxed Profiles: Mrs. Morrell and Miss Hawtin 3. Improvisation and Innovation: 1800-1920 Introduction 3.1 The early to mid-nineteenth century Charitable Organizations 3.2 The late nineteenth century: Effects of war 3.3 The early twentieth century: War, therapy & industry Summary Boxed Profile: Lavinia Warren 4. Rehabilitation, independence & finally fashion: 1930s to early 1970s Introduction 4.1 Impact of work, World War Two and rehabilitation: 1925-1950 4.2 Academic and government funded research: 1950-1973 4.3 Independent designers-Research and practice: 1950-1960 4.4 Connecting research, outreach and small business through independence & civil rights movements: 1960-1973 4.5 Other activist efforts and government initiatives Summary Boxed Profile: Frida Kahlo 5. Individual appearance management between two Acts: 1973-1990 Introduction 5.1 Impact of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act 5.2 Centers and workshops Design Without Limits Center for Universal Design 5.3 Other relevant publications 5.4 The beginning role of retail Summary Boxed Profile: Sunae Park Evans, Senior Costume Conservator, Smithsonian Institution 6. Contemporary Design and Technology Introduction 6.1 The Americans with Disabilities Act 6.2 Fashion design developments in context 6.3 Design interviews Alexandra Palmer on Izzy Camelleri of IZAdaptive Lucy Jones of FFORA Grace Jun of OpenStyleLab Justin LeBlanc on Justin LeBlanc Design 6.4 Do we have a disability design process? 6.5 Harnessing technological developments Summary 7. A Story of disabled makers Introduction 7.1 Disabled makers in history 7.2 The legacy of disabled makers Summary 8. Tying it all together Introduction 8.1 Patterns of success 8.2 Tying it all together 8.3 Where we could be heading 8.4 Disability fashion history timeline

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Book SynopsisWhy is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as ''feminine''? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock''s critique of Art History''s sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists'' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today.In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology,Table of ContentsPreface by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock A Lonely Preface to the New Edition by Griselda Pollock Acknowledgments 1 Critical Stereotypes: the essential feminine or how essential is femininity 2 Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts 3 ‘God’s little artist’ 4 Painted ladies 5 Back to the twentieth century: femininity and and feminism Conclusion Notes Select bibliography and further reading Index

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Book SynopsisGui Bonsiepe studied information design at the hfg ulm (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany from 1955-1959, where he taught as Assistant Professor from 1960-1968. Since 1968 he has been a designer and consultant for industrialization policy in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. From 1993-2003 he was Professor of Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. He lives and works in Brazil and Argentina.Lara Penin is Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design, USA. Author of An Introduction to Service Design: Designing the Invisible (Bloomsbury, 2018), her work is at the intersection of service and strategic design, participatory design and social justice. She is a graduate in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and has a PhD in Design from Milan Polytechnic University, Italy.Trade ReviewWielding a powerful dissenting design imagination, Gui Bonsiepe is one of the most complex and accomplished design thinkers of our time. As this judiciously organized collection of his writings and projects demonstrates, beginning with his work in Ulm in the 1960s and then in Latin America after 1970, and continuing through to his pioneering development of ontological interface design in the 1990s through to his more recent critiques of "design thinking", The Disobedience of Design offers perspectives that challenge, radically, the limitations of contemporary European and American design practice and theory. -- Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, USATable of ContentsIntroduction by Lara Penin Notes on the Making of the Book Recognition and Acknowledgements by Gui Bonsiepe Editorial Acknowledgements Part 1: Thinking Designing Introduction to Part 1 by Frederico Duarte (a) Essays on ulm 1.1 The Cartography of Modernity 1.2 Science and Design 1.3 The Relevance of the Ulm School of Design today 1.4 The Invisible Aspects of the HfG Ulm (b) Theory and Practice 1.5 The Discomfort of Design Theory 1.6 Arabesques of Rationality: Or the Splendor and Boredom of Design Methodology 1.7 The Uneasy Relationship of Design and Design Research (c) Design, Politics, Ethics 1.8 Design, Nomadism and Politics: Interview with Alejandro Lazo Margain 1.9 Design and Democracy 1.10 Some Virtues of Design Part II: Design in the “Periphery” Introduction to Part II by Ethel Leon (a) From Europe to South America 2.1 Peripheral Vision & Design Empowerment: Interview with James Fathers 2.2 Industrial Design in Chile 1971-1973: Interview with Hugo Palmarola 2.3 The Ulm Model in the Periphery 2.4 Industrialization Without Design (b) Design in the “Periphery” 2.5 History of Design in Latin America 2.6 Aspects of Design in the Periphery 2.7 Between Favela Chic and Autonomy: Design in Latin America (c) The Question of Difference 2.8 Between Marasmus and Hope 2.9 The Environment in the North-South Conflict 2.10 Identity and Counter-Identity of Design Part III: Design, Visuality, Cognition Introduction to Part III by Hugh Dubberly (a) Design and Language 3.1 Through Language to Design 3.2 Design: from Material to Digital and Back 3.3 Design as Tool for Cognitive Metabolism: From Knowledge Production to Knowledge Presentation (b) Design/ Visuality/ Theory 3.4 Visual/Verbal Rhetoric 3.5 The Interface Design of Computer Programs 3.6 Designing Information 3.7 Visuality | Discursivity, or Design: The Blind spot of Theory, Theory: the Blind spot of Design (c) Design and Crisis 3.8 Design and Crisis 3.9 Convergences / Divergences - Hannes Meyer and the HfG Ulm 3.10 The Disobedience of Design Part IV: Design and Development / Projects Introduction to Part IV by Constantin Boym (a) Design Policy/Design and Development 4.1 Development Through Design, a Report for UNIDO, 1973 4.2 Design and Development: The Debate with Victor Papanek a. Gui Bonsiepe: Review of Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek b. Victor Papanek: Reply to Bonsiepe’s Review 4.3 Design and Development 40 Years Later: Interview with Gabriel Patrocínio and José Mauro Nunes (b) Gui Bonsiepe: Selected Projects in Latin America 4.4 Inexpensive Record Player, Chile, 1972 4.5 Nutrition project: Spoon for Powdered Milk, Chile 1973 4.6 Agriculture project, Chopper, Chile, 1973 4.7 Consumer product: Air-conditioning, Argentina, 1980 4.8 Two projects for Local Industry in Brazil, 1984-86 4.9 Health Care Project: Needle for Blood Sampling, Brazil, 1986 (c) Case Study of Project Cybersyn, Chile 4.10 (a) Opsroom: Interface of a Cybernetic Management Room 4.10 (b) ‘Socialism by Design’ by Eden Medina Afterword by Zoy Anastassakis & Marcos Martins Appendices: Three Notes on the Closure of ulm (1968) 1. The Situation of the HfG 2. Communication & Power: A Marginal Note 3. Resolution of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm Gui Bonsiepe: A Brief Biography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWorld is Africa brings together more than 30 important texts by Eddie Chambers, who for several decades has been an original and a critical voice within the field of African diaspora art history. The texts range from book chapters and catalogue essays, to shorter texts. Chambers focuses on contemporary artists and their practices, from a range of international locations, who for the most part are identified with the African diaspora. None of the texts are available online and none have been available outside of the original publication in which they first appeared.The volume contains several new pieces of writing, including a consideration of the art world ''fetishization'' of the 1980s, as the manifestation of a reluctance to accept the majority of Black British artists as valid individual practitioners, choosing instead to shackle them to exhibitions that took place three decades ago. Another new text re-examines the map paintings' of Frank Bowling, the Guyana-born artist who Trade ReviewFor decades, Eddie Chambers has been synonymous with incisive writing on Afro-Diasporic sonic and visual culture. True to form, the wide-ranging essays in World is Africa – from the aesthetic politics of the 1980s to jazz record sleeves to contemporary art – are at once precise and polemical. This is a vital companion to 1999’s Run Through the Jungle, and introduces readers to Chambers's capacious intellectual practice – as pressing as ever, his writing elaborates the ongoing project of righting art history's many elisions. World is Africa is essential reading for anyone interested in Black Atlantic culture and the ever-shifting landscape of diaspora scholarship. -- Ian Bourland, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Georgetown University, USA.With Run Through the Jungle, and Things Done Change, Eddie Chambers established himself as perhaps the most trenchant and tenacious commentator on British art of the last two decades. World is Africa should leave no one in doubt about his unmatched authority in the field of Black Diaspora art criticism. -- Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor, African and American Diaspora Art, Princeton University, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, Patricia Bickers Acknowledgements Introduction Section One - On Art History, Institutions, and Academia 1 Section One, Introduction 2 The Harmful Consequences of Postblack 3 Africa 05: Polemic 4 Dead Artists’ Society 5 Black Artists and the Fetishisation of the 1980s 6 Black British Artists and Problems of Systemic Invisibility and Eradication: Creating Exhibition Histories of That Which Is Not There 7 Framing Black Art Section Two - History and Identity 8 Section Two, Introduction 9 ‘Handsworth Songs’ and the Archival Image 10 Black British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualising Slavery 11 2000’s Got to be Black 12 Next We Change Earth 13 Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and the Artists’ Response to the Archive 14 Black British Photography Section Three - On Artists 15 Section Three, Introduction 16 Sokari Douglas Camp CBE 17 William Kentridge: The Main Complaint 18 Hurvin Anderson: Double consciousness 19 Jonathan Jones: untitled (the tyranny of distance) 20 Vanley Burke: An Inglan Story, An Inglan History 21 Helen Wilson: Painting for a Brighter Future 22 Barbara Walker: Private Face 23 Barbara Walker: It’s a Bit Much 24 Reviewpiece: Ajamu & Sunil Gupta 25 Pat Ward Williams: Isolated Incidents 26 Donald Rodney: Three Songs on Pain Light & Time 27 Ben Jones: In the Spirit, In the Flesh 28 Frank Bowling and the Enigma of Guyana 29 Charles White’s 10- and 12- Inch Vinyl Messages 30 Hew Locke’s Depictions of Royalty Section Four - Black Artists in History 31 Section Four, Introduction 32 Independence and Cultural Nationalism in Caribbean Art 33 Black Artists and the Greater London Council 34 Art and Society, Jonathan Greenland interview with Eddie Chambers Section Five – Criticize 35 Section Five, Introduction 36 Contemporary Art or Contemporary African Art?: The Inevitable Death of the Latter 37 Richard Hylton, The Nature of the Beast: Cultural Diversity and the Visual Arts Sector: A Study of Policies, Initiatives and Attitudes 1976 – 2006: Afterword 38 Elvan Zabunyan, Black is a Color (A History of African American Art): Book review 39 “Black My Story, (Museum de Paviljoens, Netherlands, 2003): Book review 40 Criticize: Press Responses to Black Art an’ done and The Pan-Afrikan Connection exhibitions Section Six – Outernational 41 Section Six, Introduction 42 Àsìkò Goes Outernational 43 Jamaica Goes Outernational Index

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Book SynopsisVisual information is everywhere. We are constantly immersed in a flow of visual data that reshapes our social and inner world. Companies and individuals are competing to conquer the public's scarce attention by inventing distinctive visual formats to stand out from the crowd. How can designers, inventors, and product managers create designs that are quick to process as well as meaningful, unique and memorable in an age characterized by constant information overload?The answer is to think aesthetically. Research insights at the intersection between cognitive science and art studies demonstrate that our minds can effectively process visual complexity by using aesthetic pleasure and judgement as a guide. Analysing the work of great artists and designers from the perspective of how our mind appreciates beauty, Elegant Design identifies actionable aesthetic strategies that will help you to design products and user experiences that are useful, beautiful and meaningful.Trade ReviewBy exploring the tensions between simplicity and complexity, Luca Iandoli and Giuseppe Zollo, have masterfully developed a set of methods explaining the basic concepts of design through the analysis of art and psychological theories, leading to their application to produce innovative product design. * Yvette Chaparro, Parsons School of Design / The New School, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The age of aesthetics Elegant decisions The art of simplicity Getting started 1. The Simplifying Machine Impressions Simple minds What do you see is what do you get? Understanding as pattern recognition The joy of guessing: ambiguity and emotions in understanding The role of aesthetic pleasure in understanding Too good to be true Creativity Lab: how the mind simplifies reality and compresses information 2. Beauty as Effective Complexity There is no recipe for creativity The hidden workflow of the creative process How does it feel? The roles of emotions in aesthetic experience When good is good enough? Beautify as effective complexity Strategies for effective complexity Conclusions: the necessity of art Creativity Lab: handling complexity in design Part One: Search for Unity Strategies 3. Subtract Details The art of concision The case for abstraction Subtracting the obvious, adding the meaningful Small talks The science of brevity Conclusions Creativity Lab: subtracting details from your design without loosing meaningful performance 4. Symmetry Blood, sweat, and tears: what goes up, can't go down The invention of the point of view: symmetry in art Managing symmetry: checks and balances The science of symmetry Conclusions Creativity Lab: how to handle symmetry and asymmetry in your design 5. The Power of Grouping A stroll down the memory lane The power of grouping in art: seeking as creating What is your product? The danger of cognitive inertia and the wonders of creative categorization The science of grouping Conclusions Creativity Lab: Effectively grouping information in your design 6. Split Lizards, infinite lawns, and the invention of the hypertext The devil is in the detail The ergonomics of simplicity: the NEST thermostat The science of split Conclusions Creativity Lab: how to design effective information layers and hierarchy Part Two: Push for Variety Strategies 7. The Power of the Center May the force be with you The power of the center in art: equilibrium as dynamic tension The power of obsession: how extreme focus can make your business thrive (or die) The science of split: the eye of the beholder Conclusion Creativity Lab: identifying attention-structuring centers in your design 8. Emphasize An umbrella on four wheels Emphasize in art Think different: emphasize in design and management The science of emphasizing Creativity Lab: how to make your design stand out by harnessing the power of emphasis 9. Remix Mission Impossible Metamorphosis or the Nature of Change What's your story? A chairman walks into a lab The science of remix Conclusions Creativity Lab: effectively reshuffling your design to search for novelty 10. Contrast and Balance Chess and balance Present, tense Lost in transition The science of contrast Conclusions: keep on moving Creativity Lab: How to creative effective visual weight dynamics 11. The Swinging Mind Black holes and supernovas: navigating the design continuum The critical role of granularity in design When good is good enough: the swinging mind Design as persuasion Creativity Lab: everyday exercises to cultivate a swinging mind Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisPaul Duncum is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, USA, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the author of Picture Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2020).Trade Review[P]layful yet serious and will attract a large audience. * International Journal of Education through Art *From Plato to Pokémon GO, Duncum brilliantly examines the enduring entanglements between art and popular culture … This book is for everyone who wants to avoid the interminable arguments that seem to dominate all things ‘aesthetics.’ * Kevin Tavin, Aalto University, Finland *Popular Pleasures is well-researched and has flashes of brilliant insight … The book will benefit students of many visual culture disciplines, including art education, art history, graphic arts and media communications. * Kerry Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA *Immaculately researched and eloquently written, this engaging book highlights both the irresistible sensory appeal and economic, political, and ideological interest behind popular images. * Olga Ivashkevich, University of South Carolina, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction But What is Aesthetics? And What is Popular? Popular Pleasures and Politics Previous Attempts So What’s Different Here? The Mind/Body Context Scope and Outline Chapter 1: A Realistic Style What is Realism? Idolatry and Ideology The Search for Realism Painting Screen Imagery The Pleasures of Realism Making Comparisons Appreciating the Skill Evaluating Realism is Easy Pulling Back the Curtain Realism and Reality When Too Much Realism is Bad When Seeing Shouldn’t be Believing Fake versus the Bona Fide Veridical, Virtual, and Verifiable Chapter 2: The Illusionistic Illusion versus Realism Magic, Miracles and the Devil The Persistence of Illusion Trompe-l’oeil Three-Dimensional Movies Optical Illusion Devices Stage Magic Magic, Wonder and Mischief Being Deceived Being in the Know Conflating Realism with Illusion Illusion and Delusion Illusion and Life Chapter 3: The Bright and Busy Terms and Taste The Doctrine of Decorum Reason and Restraint Modernist Minimalism The Relativity of Restraint Serious versus Superficial Purpose Brightness and Business Delighting the Eye Enhancing the Ordinary Resisting Restraint Bright, Busy and Biology The Seriousness of Selling Bright, Busy and Business Chapter 4: The Highly Emotional An Empire of Emotions Emotion versus Emotionalism The Rhetoric of Emotions versus the Aesthetics of Emotions The Theory of Emotional Rhetoric The Pictorial Practice of Rhetoric The Rise of Sentiment Rejecting Rhetoric The Rise of Romanticism Expression versus Imitation Fine Art and Popular Entertainment What Arouses Emotion? Why Do Emotional Lures Work? Catharsis versus Cognitive Coping Escaping Identifying Searching for Authenticity Seeking Attachment Participating For Better or Worse Chapter 5: The Sentimental Surveying Sentimentality A Discourse of Abuse A Sentimental Journey The Sugar of Sentimentality The Comfort of an Aestheticized Sanctuary Longing for a Past as Pleasant Love and Compassion as their Own Rewards The Ironic Distance of Camp and Kitsch Social Progress Exercising Power The Sins of Sentimentality Disempowering and Harming Sentimentality’s Subjects Disempowering and Infantilizing Viewers Poor Public Policy Sense and Sentimentality Chapter 6: The Vulgar Vulgarity and its Variants Vulgarity and Fine Art A Historical Perspective Grotesques and Carnival Vulgar Porn Scatology Vulgarity and Reform Viva Vulgarity! Disgust and Delight Transgression Social Bonding Joyful Resistance Haunting and Humanness Vile Vulgarity Transgression and Suppression Ridicule and Reaction Vexing Vulgarity Chapter 7: The Violent Violence and is Variants A Violent Present A Violent Past Explaining Violent Entertaiment Excitation Transfer Simultaneous Emotional Pleasures Fear and Mastery Seeking Stimulus Everything But Violence Algorithmic Allure The Problems of Violence Purgation Does Not Work Diminishing Returns Mental Scripts of a Hostile World A Cycle of Violence An End to Violence? Chapter 8: The Horrific Horror, Terror, and Dread Sublime Terror versus Popular Horror Horror Hedonism Performative Pleasures Escape and Stimulation Transfixed Fascination Making Moral Judgments Wish Fulfillment and/or Recognition Transgressive Liberation Repetition Horror and Humor Horror, Hostility and Hate Repression Unleashing Hatred Uncanny Uncertainty Chapter 9: The Miraculous Miracles and Marvels The Skeptical Discourse An Enchanted Universe of Miracles Wonder Curiosity Creating Social Identity Finding Patterns and Purpose Debunking Absurdities Parodying Absurdities Escaping into Fantasy Being Confounded Spectacles of Wonder Miracles and Mirage Rejecting Rationality Vulnerability and Vultures The Wonder of It All Chapter 10: The Exotic Exoticism Explored The Exotic Discourse Exotic Enchantment Wonder Spice Seasoning Cultural Renewal Defining Difference Feeling Culturally Superior Taking Symbolic Possession Being Reassured Distortion, Disparagement and Denigration Selectivity and Distortion Inferiority Complexes Superiority Complexes Denial and Projection Exiting the Exotic Chapter 11: The Erotic Exploring the Erotic Sexual Discourse The High Culture Alibi Enjoying the Erotic Voyeurism Fetishism Sadism, Masochism and Sadomasochism Identification Exhibitionism Queer and Queering Prohibition, Permission, and Perfection Permissiveness and Perfection Pornification Selling Sex Sex, Sin and Suppression Chapter 12: The Spectacular Sizing Up the Spectacular The Spectacular versus Sensationalism Size Matters Wonder Thrills and Spills Immersion Ego Loss Humor When Might Makes Right Requiring Submission Failing to See/ Failing to Feel Ignoring the Unspectacular Tedium Summarizing of the Spectacular Chapter 13: The Narrative The Nature of Narrative The Modernist Rejection of Narrative Narrative Norms Narrative’s Gratifications Organizing Complexity Satisfying Curiosity Escaping into Alternative Realities Emotional Identification Everything Else The Stories We Tell The End Chapter 14: The Formulaic Recipes and Road Maps Formulaic Fine Art Formulae and Form Why Formulae Work Easy Communication Reducing Complexity Further Ongoing Comfort and Anxiety Innovation Reading Complexly Formulae and their Challenges Boredom Formulae and Falsity Finishing with Formulae Chapter 15: The Humorous Humor and Mirth Humor and the Haughty Humor versus Gravitas Why We Smile, Snigger and Snort. Feeling Superior Descending Incongruity Emotional Release Humor’s Disciplinary and Dark Side Anaesthesia of the Heart Imposing Social Discipline Ridicule and Repression Humor and Hate Humor and Hostility References Index

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Book SynopsisAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. TelegraphFeaturing new insights and an additional chapter on masculinities, this updated edition of Tartan revitalizes discussions about the fabric's traditional, sentimental Highland origins and its deliberate subversion by contemporary designers. Tartan's history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts, from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement, to the fabric's influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, Jonathan Faiers traces tartan''s development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, <Trade ReviewAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. * Telegraph *Intriguing study ... mixes the serious with the saucy. * International Herald Tribune *A rare treat; a readable, enjoyable academic text. * Selvedge *Stunning! * Janice Forsyth, BBC Scotland *A great alternative to the numerous clan reference guides that abound in tourist traps up and down the country. * Scotsman Magazine *Comprehensive ... wonderfully eclectic. * New Humanist *This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book that is guaranteed to make the reader consider tartan from new perspectives. * Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture *Highly attractive ... fascinating ... A treasure trove of Tartan. * Military Illustrated *Faiers explores the cultural significance and surrounding connotations of tartan while conducting a comprehensive deconstruction of the fabric and its place and development throughout history from clanship to contemporary fashion. * Ali McCulloch, Precious McBane *Having read the book one becomes aware of tartan's extraordinary versatility, its possibilities as both a radical and traditional material, and the local and global contexts within which it operates. * Juliette MacDonald, Textile *This is a huge text book that would be great for anyone wanting to learn everything there is to know on the subject. * Cut Out and Keep blog *A great variety of illustrations of tartan fabrics as they appear in period portraits, fashion designers' collections, products, cartoons, stage, and film complement this thoroughly researched, annotated volume that should interest experts and general readers alike. Recommended. * CHOICE *A beautifully illustrated story ... history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about the most radical and traditional of fabrics. * Crafts *The book of choice for intelligent fashionistas this winter. * Selvedge *Tartan is not only for dedicated aficionados, but for everyone curious about its chequered past. Faiers unravels a wonderfully engaging and kaleidoscopic view of this high-impact Scottish cloth, and surprises us by unravelling how tartan continues to inspire and permeate contemporary visual cultures. * Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada *This beautifully illustrated book is a fantastic resource for anyone wishing to understand Tartan's traditional and rebellious history, from its Scottish roots to its radical reinterpretation by designers including McQueen, Westwood, and Comme des Garçons. Tartan is a must-have book for any fashion or textile student. * Andrew Groves, University of Westminster, UK *Faiers offers the most in-depth exploration of tartan’s entanglements with fashion and popular culture to date, teasing out the contradictions in its multifarious iterations of clan, cause, and contention. Tartan unravels the myths but the romance remains intact. * Cynthia Cooper, McCord Museum, Canada *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Tartan and History 1. Technical Construction: Sett, Weave, Colour 2. Early Appearances 3. Fragments and Fabrication Part II: Tartan and Dress 4. Transforming Tartan 5. Regulation Tartan 6. Erogenous Zones 7. Tartan Toffs Part III: Tartan’s Embrace 8. Balmoralization 9. Tartan, the Grid and Modernity 10. Supernatural Tartan 11. Colonization 12. Tartan’s Translation 13. Tartan Undecided Tartan Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDeeply erudite but also playful and full of wit. Salman RushdieFashion Sense is designed to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion's superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as if they were something deep. But is fashion's apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy's longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion's quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato's Republic. And the quest for fashiTrade ReviewFASHION | SENSE is Gwenda-lin Grewal’s brilliant meditation, deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit, on clothing as disguise, revelation, acquiescence, transformation, identity, and second self, as the "bodies we put on." In Grewal’s hands the “age-old argument” between philosophy and fashion, the things of the mind and the things of the body, is scintillatingly renewed. * Salman Rushdie, Distinguished Writer in Residence, New York University, USA *Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion is a brilliant book... The book is extremely original in writing and thinking. Grewal has style in spades, and this style creates (or rather is) her considerable substance. The book thrums with energy and wit, and it was an absolute pleasure to read. It took my breath away. * Fashion Theory *Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion by Gwenda-lin Grewal explores how philosophers underestimate fashion's power in their search for the naked truth. Mercifully devoid of academic jargon and pomposity, the book is studded with brilliant and often witty observations on the unexpected parallels between philosophy and fashion. * Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, USA *Gwenda-lin Grewal’s Fashion | Sense should be read more than once, for it moves conceptually, on multiple levels, and stylistically on many others. If you read it for its insights into Ancient Greek philosophy, you will find yourself returning to it for its sharp criticism of contemporary society—mores and looks. On a third time, you may want to reread it just for its prose. * British Journal of Aesthetics *This rich, knowledgeable, variegated book challenges easy assumptions about fashion’s modernity. Grewal juxtaposes contemporary manifestations of fashion with situations and characters from ancient literatures in an expert pursuit of fashion-thinking, where “fashion-thinking” means philosophy’s engagement with dress, but also fashion’s own mode of reflection. * Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy, The City University of New York Graduate Center, USA *A fascinating book by a great new talent which wholly successfully drags philosophy out the closet. In writing that is at once clear and deep, classically informed and very funny, Grewal makes a wholly convincing case for the kinship of philosophy and fashion. Highly recommended." * Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor, The New School for Social Research, New York *Table of ContentsNote to Reader Preface: The 'Other' Ancient Quarrel 1. Fashion Sense 2. Phantom Selves 3. The Dead 4. The Dandy 5. Divine Tailoring 6. The Beauty of Ugliness 7. The Question of Fashion's Beginning Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFashion ephemerafrom catalogues and invitations to press releaseshave long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. Fashion Remains redresses the balance, putting these objects centre stage and focusing on the wider creative practice of contemporary fashion designers, photographers, graphic designers, make-up artists, and many more. Fashion ephemera are considered not as disposable promotional devices, but as windows into hidden networks of collaboration and value creation in the fashion system.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Fashion Remains explores the unseen and privately circulated fashion ephemera produced by today's most prominent international fashion designers such as Margiela, Yamamoto, and Raf Simons. Showcasing a unique archive of materials, it focuses on Antwerp's avant-garde fashion scene and reveals the potential of these ephemeral objects to evoke and call into question material and immaterial knowledge about the fashion industryTrade ReviewFashion Remains carries out an unprecedented study, which analyzes material that has been overlooked by researchers in the field of fashion studies ... Marco Pecorari and his book contribute to the development of fashion studies, and it is a great reading recommendation for those researchers looking for new perspectives within their studies on material culture and fashion. The book enables the reader to realize the potential to explore other artefacts, places, and practices of the fashion system beyond clothing, fashion shows, and museums, such as fashion ephemera and the archive. * Journal of Dress History *[A]n excellent book. An engaging read by a researcher with a compelling and at times poetic authorial voice, and a worthy addition to any fashion library both personal and institutional. Pecorari invites us as fashion scholars to triangulate our research with an alternative data set, that we may generate yet more nuanced and compelling analyses of our subjects. Using his examination of ephemera through communication theoretical perspectives to advance a valuable new sub-discipline of fashion research. * Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction CHAPTER 1 – AUTHORIAL NETWORKS Matters of Signatures: from Authenticity to Intimacy Authorial Bodies and Stories Authorizing Visible and Invisible Voices Multiple Authors Aesthetic and Disciplinary Dialogues Keeping and Expanding Authorship Blurring Fashion Authorities Authorial Networks CHAPTER 2 – PERFOMANCES OF TIME One Ephemera, Multiple Events Between Disappearance and Permanence The Look Moment Show(ing) Time The Liveness of the Show Show Mediatization Allusive Fragments Performances of Imagination CHAPTER 3 – POETIC TRANSFORMATIONS A Ménage à Trois Haptic Fashion Images Material Animations The Sense of Fabric Point of Touch Paratexts and Touching Concepts Poetics Transformations Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance of scenography as a critical tool for art historians and scholars from related branches of study addressing phenomena such as witchy designs, Early Modern festival books, live rock performances, digital fashion photography, and outdoor dance interventions. With its nuanced and detailed case studies, this book is an innovative contribution to ongoing debates within art history and visual studies concerning multisensory events. It extends the existing literature by demonstrating the importance of a reimagined scenography concept for comprehending historical and contemporary art histories and visual cultures more broadly. The book contends that scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional spTrade ReviewThe editors of this provocative and stimulating collection of essays use the concepts of scenography and art history to mutually challenge and expand the analytic potential of each to provide important new strategies for exploring the increasingly complex world of contemporary art. * Marvin Carlson, Distinguished Professor, Theatre and Performance, CUNY, USA *The essays collected in the present volume shift the conversation with scenography away from definitions, and this opens terminology—scenography, scenographics—but also theoretical parameters. … The anthology seeks to give scenography its voice and in so doing, challenges easy boundaries between disciplines and forges new methodologies for thinking with and through scenographic agency. … Scenography and Art History opens its dialogue with art and its histories … at a time when reconceiving the material and imaginative encounters between times, spaces and bodies has never been more urgent and necessary. * Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Transnational Art and Feminism, and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, UK *A book devoted to the interfaces of scenography and art history is long overdue for numerous reasons. ... As the authors deftly argue, art history has been as ready to dismiss scenography on the same grounds that, until recently, allowed theatre and performance scholars to brush it off as purely decorative (as a practice) or vocational (as a form of thinking). The marriage of these subjects is, consequently, a welcome and exciting addition to the growing library of scenography scholarship and its many possible futures beyond theatre. * Rachel Hann, Senior Lecturer in Performance & Design, Northumbria University, UK *Scenography and Art History is a thrillingly multifaceted and innovative collection of cross-disciplinary case studies unlocking the potentials of scenography as an overlooked sphere, concept and phenomenon in relation to art history as well as to other aesthetic disciplines. * Andrea Kollnitz, Associate professor in Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden *Spatial, temporal, affective, critical, and embodied dimensions of scenographic perspectives inform this cross-disciplinary, multifaceted anthology. An unprecedented dialogue between art history and scenography, this volume is both urgent and necessary, exploring the multisensory workings that can shape culture through scenographic phenomena. * Donatella Barbieri, Senior Research Fellow and Principal Lecturer in design for performance, University of the Arts London, UK *This important study shifts our perceptions and understandings of what scenography is. It shows us how agential modes of creative practice can lead towards new theoretical frameworks and how the expanded relationality between objects, subjects, spaces, and ideas can help us forging new realities within and outside the world of art history. * Alda Terracciano, Participatory Design Consultant at The Sloane Lab (AHRC TaNC Programme), UCL Department of Information Studies, UK *The book is a very important contribution to current discussions on multisensory art historical and contemporary events by proposing scenography both as a theoretical concept and as a practical exercise in the field of art history and related disciplines. * Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Former Senior Research Asscociate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria *Bypassing conventional interdisciplinary anthologies, this collection illuminates the primacy of the physical body and the spatial and material allure it evinces on stage and in visual artistry. Contributions from diverse scholars, sometimes working in direct collaboration, illuminate the many ways in which the performative operates both in real time and in allusive visual form. * Sarah R Cohen, Professor and Chair, Department of Art and Art History, University at Albany, SUNY, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Two forewords Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Re-imagining Scenography in Relation to Art History, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 2. Black Goats and Broomsticks: Feminism and the Figure of the Witch in Leonor Fini’s Designs for Le Sabbat, Rachael Grew (Loughborough University, UK) 3. Scenographing the Dance Archive – Keep Crawling!, Astrid von Rosen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 4. Michael Chapman’s Rauschenberg: Mis-en-scène and Scenography in Taxi Driver, Gillian McIver (The University for the Creative Arts, UK) 5. A Dynamic Bipolarity: The Royal Holloway Chapel Project, Scenography and Art History, Greer Crawley (Buckinghamshire New University/Royal Holloway University of London, UK) and Harriet O’Neill (British School at Rome, Italy) 6. Killed by Drones: Embodying Live Performance Scenography, Olga Nikolaeva (Independent scholar, Sweden) 7. Evocations of the ‘sonore et voilé’: The Scenographic World of Der Ring in the Art of Henri Fantin-Latour, Corrinne Chong (Peel District School Board/Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada) 8. Visual Couture: Costume Agency in the Advertising Campaign Opera Papier, Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9. ‘Re-Dressing The Part:’ The Scenographic Strategies of Ellen Terry (1847-1928), Veronica Isaac (University of Brighton/New York University London, UK) 10. Scenographing Festival Books: Towards a Multisensory Archive, Carmen González-Román (University of Málaga, Spain) 11. Scenographic Events: Interfacing with Digital Fashion Stories, Christine Sjöberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 12. Beyond Change: Archaeology of a Spook Play, Tamas Szalczer (Designer, USA) and Eszter Szalczer (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. ‘Who is the Fairest?’ Skin Colour Matters, in conversation with NT 2. Beauty and the Privilege of Looking, in conversation with Marcia Michael 3. ‘What Cha Looking At?’ An Oppositional Gaze in Image-Making Practice, in conversation with Sadie Lee 4. Red Shift: Not, ‘Doing it for Daddy’, in conversation with Ajamu 5. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: its works are designed to serve our purposes, and therefore it is classed as functional. Carving out a new space, Edward Winters argues why architecture is a fine art and finds a place for the fine art of architecture in the cultural environment in which we structure our lives.Winters reconciles intrinsic value, as a fine art, with extrinsic value, as shelter, security and comfort, without collapsing into the modernist conception of Functionalism. He draws on the Apollonian and the Dionysian to resolve the apparent conflict between the two values: the former requiring contemplative, detached reflection, the latter an engaged, embodied entanglement with the festive mood inspired by the immediate situation. Architecture, Winters claims, is to be regarded as functional; but this functionality is subsumed under the intrinsic aesthetic valTrade ReviewEdward Winters is not only an excellent scholar but also a gifted writer. This rich, lucid, and accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of architecture. * Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer of History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, UK *In Architectural Aesthetics, Edward Winters answers the question: what is the art of architecture by delving into the motivation for building, and the experience of occupying and appreciating architectural works. The result is a strikingly original approach to its subject. * Robert Stecker, Professor of Philosophy, Central Michigan University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: The Wide Conversation Surrounding Architecture 1. Hunting and Gathering 2. Home in the World Part II: The System of the (Fine) Arts 3. The Fine Art Members’ Club: Architecture’s Candidature 4. Imagination and Combobulation 5. Imagination Unhinged 6. Architecture: Beauty in Service Part III: The Medium of Architecture 7. The Medium of Architecture: From Philosophy to Criticism 8. The Scale of the Tasks 9. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply experimental. Images of the circus emerge from a plethora of chaotic marks, while numerous landscapes appear as if ossified in thick paint.Rouault's work explodes the genre of painting, drawing upon the residue of Gustave Moreau's symbolism, the extremities of Fauvism, and the radical theatrical experiments of Alfred Jarry. The repetitions and re-workings at the heart of Rouault's process defy conventional chronological treatment, and place the emphasis upon the coming-into-being of the work of art. Ultimately, the book reveals the process of making as both a search for understanding and a response to the problematic world of the 20th century.Trade ReviewJennifer Johnson’s ground-breaking study offers a new, comprehensive account of the world and work of Georges Rouault. Elegant prose, rich formal description, and bold theoretical insights reveal the crucial role of materiality as a form of thought in modern art. * John R. Blakinger, Endowed Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Arkansas, USA *In a narrative full to bursting with luminous visual analyses and exciting passages of contextualisation, Jennifer Johnson presents us with a new vision and understanding of Georges Rouault, an artist who has languished for too long on the outskirts of Modernism. A truly captivating book. * Karen Lang, former Editor-in-Chief, The Art Bulletin, and Slade Professor of Fine Art and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK *Jennifer Johnson’s book is a timely and important exploration of Rouault’s probing relationship with questions of materiality and meaning. It is a serious and powerful contribution to a central art-historical issue, the material character of making as a form of understanding. * David Peters Corbett, Professor of American Art & Director of the Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *In Jennifer Johnson’s reading of Rouault’s surfaces, meaning accrues in a richly layered manner. Drawing upon theorists and philosophies—both contemporaneous and more recent—Johnson returns the reader to Rouault’s thick, reworked, slabs of paint with new understandings of how the artist grappled with questions at the heart of modernism through his subjects, materials, and making. * Ashley Dunn, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Georges Rouault's Modernism Chapter 1: 1903-1907: Mutilation, Revivification and Imaginative Play on the Surface Chapter 2: The Interwar Years: Materiality, Theatricality, and Social Critique Chapter 3: ‘Le métier de peindre’ or Making as Thought: Bergson, Maritain, and Rouault’s landscapes Chapter 4: Light Thickens: Theology, Phenomenology and the Veronica Chapter 5: Material Imaginings: Matter, Materiality, and Modes of Being Index

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Book SynopsisEmily Hage is Associate Professor of Art History, Saint Joseph's University, USA.Trade ReviewHage’s book offers something different. It provides an introduction, a cohesive narrative, and a path through the movement from a revised perspective in which journals take center stage. ... The outstanding achievement in this book is its ability to look beyond the particulars of these journals … that have long entranced Dada scholars, in the interest of uncovering their role as an underlying system (“langue”), with myriad game-changing implications. * CAA Reviews *Magazines were the lifeblood of Dada, a movement that still resists neat pigeonholing in the history of the avant-gardes. Emily Hage’s Dada Magazines brings a fresh eye to these publications and presents new arguments and evidence for their importance, not just as the print conduits for the manifestos, art, poems, polemics, gossip, and diverse writings of the small, widely separated groups of activists who produced them, under a non-name that spread like a virus, but as active in their own right—creating networks and influencing Dada exhibitions, for example. Hage expertly lays out the ways the juxtapositions, collages, jokes, and confrontations in the magazines influenced radical methods of display in Dada exhibitions and installations. Hage’s lucid presentation, focusing on the material production, presence, and impact of the magazines, is especially valuable for the breadth of her research, bringing out the later strands of Dada in unexpected places like Zagreb and Bucharest. This excellent study of the magazines is a timely reminder of the way Dada has remained a cultural, artistic, political, and even moral irritant, whose tactics have been repeated in so many contexts over the last century: from appropriation to performance, parody to the readymade, and are still not quite laid to rest in history, as Hage’s fascinating epilogue, looking at the 'Dadazines' of the sixties and seventies, explains. * Dawn Ades, Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, UK *If we thought that we knew everything there was to know about Dada periodicals, Emily Hage’s Dada Magazines sets us right. This engaging and elegantly crafted study provides fresh approaches to the ‘active agents’ of Dada’s formation and spread. * Marius Hentea, Professor of English Literature, University of Gothenburg, Sweden *The international dissemination of its creative energy, its anarchic humor and its response to the contradictions of modernity made Dada possibly the most vital of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes. Emily Hage’s lively, meticulously researched volume tackles the issue of Dada’s geographical expansion head-on, offering the most complete study of Dada magazines, in all their inventiveness and diversity, currently available to scholars. * David Hopkins, Professor of Art History, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. An Extraordinary Opportunity to be Denounced as a Wit: How Magazines Launched ‘Dada,’ 1916-1917 2. ‘Every page must explode’: Dada Magazines as Exhibition Venues, 1918-1919 3. Printing Artworks, Exhibiting Ephemera: Dada Journals and Exhibitions, 1920-1921 4. ‘Be on your guard, Madam’: New York Dada and the Magazine as Readymade, 1921 5. Contingency and Continuity: Dada Magazines and the Expanding Network, 1922-1926 Epilogue: Magazines to Zines: Echoes of Dada in 1970s America Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDonald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time. A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new dynamic to British art a hitherto unseen interplay between aesthetics, politics, humour and Black consciousness. Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic is the first book-length study of a protean practice which spanned the early 1980s to the late 1990s and included a prodigious output of work across painting, photography, collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and new technologies.Across eight meticulously researched chapters, the book examines the social and cultural events which inspired Rodney''s artwork and the responses it elicited. From his formative years in the West Midlands as a leading exponent of Black Art', to a subsequent decade of unbridled visual innovation and social critique, the book venture

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Book SynopsisGriselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is Editor, with Anthony Bryant, of Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotiating the Image and of Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (both I.B. Tauris) and is Series Editor of Tauris' New Encounters Series. Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. His recent publications include Palimpsestic Memory: the Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (Berghahn, 2013). Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman are joint authors of Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's 'Night and Fog', which won the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Best Book on the Moving Image, 2011.Trade ReviewConcentrationary Memories rests on a provocative, carefully theorized consideration of the nature of the ‘concentrationary’ universe, extending and reframing terms and ideas introduced by Hannah Arendt, on the one hand, and lesser known but significant figures in the French context such as David Rousset, Robert Antelme and Jean Cayrol. As its editors note, the first word of their title is unfamiliar in English, and this is perhaps a sign of the need for renewed and close attention to the phenomenon named by the French writer Rousset in 1946. The volume answers this need with care and a justly high level of critical vigilance. Without deflecting the importance attached to the term holocaust and to the issues and concerns of the racial genocides of the twentieth-century, the volume shifts attention towards the politics of deportation and internment, and pursues vital questions about the adequacy and nature of aesthetic responses, questions which bear upon the nature and concept of representation. A crucial emphasis of the volume is on the ‘permanent presence’ of the concentrationary, since its inception; the volume thus includes powerful and essential analyses of the phenomenon across examples in literature, film and photography since the liberation of the camps, and in varying global contexts. The 11 essays in the volume are supported by an extensive introduction by the editors, a contribution in its own right to ongoing debates about politics and representation, and the politics of representation. Given this focus, the meticulous attention to the presentation of the substantial number of images which feature in the volume is unsurprising, and deserves special recognition. This is a unique project, insofar as it breaks new ground in the establishment of a new object of enquiry and research, and goes some way into the exploration of this territory. The volume makes a substantial contribution to research on the legacies of the political evils of the last century and will be essential reading for anyone concerned with it and by it. The book makes a clear case that this includes all of us. * Patrick ffrench, King’s College, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsConcentrationary Memories Series Preface Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman: Part 1: Theorising the Political Space and Beyond Chapter 1 The Memory of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and the Possibility of Encounter John Wolfe Ackerman Part 2: Mediations of Memory Chapter 2 Migration and Motif: the (Parapractic) Memories of an Image Thomas Elsaesser Chapter 3 The Two Stages of the Eichmann Trial Sylvie Lindeperg & Annette Wieviorka Chapter 4 Brushing the Film Against the Grain: Locating Jean Cayrol’s Lazarean Figure in Alain Resnais’s Muriel ou le temps d’un retour Matthew John Part 3: Camp Visions Chapter 5 Symbol Re-formation: Concentrationary Memory in Charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After Nicholas Chare Chapter 6 A New Visual Structure for the Unthinkable: The Surrealist Aesthetic and the Concentrationary Sublime in Lee Miller’s Photographs of Buchenwald and Dachau Isabelle de le Court Chapter 7 Muselmann: a distilled image of the Lager? Glenn Sujo Chapter 8 Nameless before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 1941–42 after Gurs Griselda Pollock Part 4: Beyond the Limits Chapter 9 Animated Memory: Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir Claire Launchbury Chapter 10 Isn’t this where…? Projections on Pink Floyd The Wall: Tracing the Concentrationary Image Benjamin Hannavy Cousen Chapter 11 Memory Work in Argentina 1976-2006 Laura Malosetti Costa Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSharon Hecker is an art historian and curator of Italian art. She is the author of A Moment's Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot' (2018) and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021).Raffaele Bedarida is Associate Professor of Art History at Cooper Union, USA. He is the author of Corrado Cagli: La pittura, l'esilio, L'America (2018; English edition forthcoming) and Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States from Futurism to Arte Povera (2022).Trade ReviewFifty years going since Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism, we have in this marvellous volume a fascinating kaleidoscope of historical and critical perspectives on the art world of Fascism. Grounded in rigorous questions about aesthetics and contexts, the volume brings into lively conversation successive generations of curators, critics and historians from all over the Atlantic World—Italy, Brazil, the USA, Canada. It is in itself like the opening of an exciting exhibition, curated with empathy, loaded with striking and beautiful images, and, above all, guided by a strong, critical collective eye for the many diverse, often controversial ways of looking at the art and artefacts that have yielded the fascist aesthetic, itself so varied, elusive and insidious. * Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University, USA *What ethical debts do museums owe to their objects of study—particularly those inextricable from a totalitarian regime? At every turn, this exciting volume unsettles the presumed neutrality of curatorial selection and display, underscoring the often unwitting political contingencies attendant upon seemingly straightforward exhibition strategies. * Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian, New York University, USA *In confronting a critical lacuna in our understanding of postwar history and memory in Italy – the complex and problematic ways in which the art of the Fascist era was displayed after the fall of the regime – Curating Fascism presents an insightful and disturbing picture of a past that has yet to be faced. * Marla Stone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, American Academy in Rome, Italy *A pivotal and fresh reconsideration of cultural politics in the fascist era, through the lens of a selection of historical and recent exhibitions that have shaped the interpretation of the ventennio over time. * Ester Coen, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy *This masterly book provides an extraordinary in-depth look at the untold story of postwar exhibitions on fascism. An international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, raisesd the fundamental question of how these exhibitions have shaped historical narratives and collective memory in Italy and abroad. Subverting the usual categories, historical studies and direct accounts guide us in understanding the peculiar difficulties in exhibiting the works of the fascist era, the related curatorial responsibilities, and the legacy of fascism in the current historical moment. * Laura Iamurri, Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Rethinking Historical Exhibitions in Italy 1. Exhibiting Art of the Fascist Ventennio: Curatorial Choices, Installation Strategies, and Critical Reception from Arte Moderna in Italia 1915–1935 (Florence, 1967) to Annitrenta (Milan, 1982), Luca Quattrocchi, University of Siena, Italy 2. Pluralism as Revisionism: Annitrenta at Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1982, Denis Viva, the University of Trento, Italy 3. Interview with Renato Barilli, Curator of Annitrenta Exhibition at Palazzo Reale (Milan, 1982), Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA 4. Art, Life, Politics, and the Seductiveness of Italian Fascism: Post Zang Tumb Tuuum at Fondazione Prada (Milan, 2018), Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA 5. Italy’s Holocaust on Display: From Carpi-Fossoli to Auschwitz (to Florence), Robert S. C. Gordon, Cambridge University, UK 6. Umbertino Umbertino: The Many Masks of Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Romy Golan, the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA Part Two: Exhibitions of Fascism Around the World 7. Exhibiting and Collecting the F-word in Britain, Rosalind McKever, Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 8. Novecento Brasiliano: Margherita Sarfatti, Ciccillo Matarazzo, and the Italian Collection of MAC USP, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil 9. Contextualizing Razionalismo in the exhibition Photographic Recall (2019): Fascist Spaces in Contemporary German Photography, Miriam Paeslack, University at Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA 10. Feeling at Home: Exhibiting Design, Blurring Fascism, Elena Dellapiana and Jonathan Mekinda, the Politecnico di Torino, Italy; University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA 11. Italian Jewish Artists and Fascist Cultural Politics: on Gardens and Ghettos at the Jewish Museum in New York (1989), Emily Braun, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, interviewed by Raffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker Part Three: Absences 12. Exhibiting the Homoerotic Body, the Queer Afterlife of Ventennio Male Nudes, John Champagne Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA 13. “Partigiano Portami Via”: Exhibiting Antifascism and the Resistance in Post-Fascist Italy, Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, New York, USA 14. Looking at Women and Mental Illness in Fascist Italy: An Exhibition’s Dialogical and Feminist Approach, Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 15. Silencing the Colonial Past: The 1993 Exhibition Architettura italiana d’oltremare 1870-1940 in Bologna, Nicola Labanca, University of Siena, Italy 16. Recharting Landscapes in the Exhibition Roma Negata: Postcolonial Routes of the City (2014) and the Digital Project Postcolonial Italy: Mapping Colonial Heritage, Shelleen Greene University of California, Los Angeles, USA Part Four: Curatorial Practices 17. From MRF to Post Zang Tumb Tuuum: The Responsibilities of the Re-hang, Vanessa Rocco, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, USA 18. The Final Ramp: Addressing Fascism in Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim Museum, Vivien Greene and Susan Thompson, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA; Curator and Writer, Brooklyn, USA 19. The Making of MART and the Archivio del Novecento: Interview with Gabriella Belli, Director of the Foundation from the Municipal Museums of Venice 20. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Reconstructing Artists’ Studios in Exhibitions on Fascist-Era Art, Sharon Hecker, Art Historian and Curator, Italy 21. Interview with Maaza Mengiste on Project 3541: A Photographic Archive of the 1935-41 Italo-Ethiopian War, Raffaele Bedarida and Sharon Hecker, Art historian and Curator, Italy; Cooper Union, New York, USA Index

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Book SynopsisThis book can be read through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.The historiography of the Great War has been significantly renewed in recent years; yet, despite its crucial social, economic, and cultural importance, the role that fashion played in shaping wartime experiences and economies on an international scale between 1914 and 1918 has largely gone unaddressed. Fashion, Society, and the First World War fills this gap by offering a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the war on the ways that the fashion industry functioned in a global wartime economy, as well as on the ways that women and men negotiated this new world.With an international, thematic approach, and illustrated in full color throughout, this volume discusses the reconfiguration of the fashion industry, wartime style and production, and the reframing of selfhood, gender roles, and national identity through Trade ReviewA coherent, fresh and fascinating study by an impressive, international group of researchers … Because of its international base, the high quality of the research manifested by its 19 contributors, and the sensitive structure set in pace by its editors, this book marks another important step in the current positive and exciting development in dress and fashion history publications. * Lou Taylor, University of Brighton, UK *This innovative book reveals how the global war altered not only the business of fashion on an international scale but also had a strong impact on personal dress practices. It splendidly shows how fashion became a powerful symbol of nationalism and played an important role concerning social norms including gender and class relationship. * Adelheid Rasche, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Germany *A long overdue transnational exploration of the business and beauty of fashion during the Great War, covering diverse aspects of wartime clothing industry, artistry and identity through absorbing scholarship and impactful illustrations. * Lucy Adlington, author of Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe and Stitches in Time *Table of ContentsLists of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements, Maude Bass-Krueger, Hayley Edwards-Dujardin, and Sophie Kurkdjian Notes on Translation Timeline Introduction, Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian I. The Reconfiguration of the International Couture Industry 1: Wartime Marketing of Parisian Haute Couture in the United States, 1914-1917 Mary Lynn Stewart 2: Boué Sœurs, “Compelled by the War” Waleria Dorogova 3: “Gladdening the hearts of warriors:” the relationship between Lucile’s romantic fashions and morale in World War I Georgina Ripley 4: Die Kriegskrinoline - A Feminine Fashion Between Past and Future Birgit Haase 5: Fashion in Belgium during the Great War and the Case of Norine Nele Bernheim II. The Materiality of Wartime Fashion and Textile Industries 6: Dressed to Quill: The Origin and Significance of the Feathered Showgirl in World War I Paris Emily Brayshaw 7: Between Fashion and Folk: Dress Practices in Alsace during World War I Sara Hume 8: The Lace Industry in Belgium and France During the War Marguerite Coppens 9: Industrial and Handmade Clothing Production in the Netherlands, a Neutral Country during First World War Marta Kargól 10: Wartime Fabrics in the Historical Archives of Como Weavers and in the Collections of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti Margherita Rosina III. Problematic Uniforms: Male and Female Experiences and Second-Hand Trade Networks 11: “Breeched, Booted, and Cropped:” a dress historical analysis of the uniform worn by members of Britain’s Women’s Land Army, 1917-1919 Amy de la Haye 12: The French Home Front in 1914-1918: An Investigation of Female Workwear Jérémie Brucker 13: Rushing to Suit Up: French Aviation’s Adjustment to Wartime Uniforms, 1914-1916 Guillaume de Syon 14: The Spoils of War: Use and Transformations of Second-Hand Uniforms during the First World War in France Manuel Charpy IV. Fashion in Print: Questions of National Fashion and Gender 15: The Gentleman Turned “Enemy:” Men’s Fashion in the Hungarian Press, 1914-1918 Zsolt Mészáros 16: The Politics of Fashion: German Fashion (Writings) in Times of War Burcu Dogramaci 17: The Italian Fashion Magazine Margherita: the War, Women, and the Call for a “Moda Italiana,” 1914-1918 Enrica Morini 18: Le Flambeau’s Fashion Discourse during the First World War: Towards a Retrograde Femininity? Nigel Lezama 19: Is Beauty Useless? Fashion, Gender, and British Wartime Society in Punch Magazine, 1915 Andréa Kollnitz Index

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