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Book SynopsisAn examination of the craft of silversmithing among the Navaho and Pueblo Indians, based on museum inspections, field work, interviews and a brief apprenticeship to a Navaho silversmith. Adair aims to relate the art to its social framework as well as provide an analysis of the economic aspects.Trade ReviewWith the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians. So richly decorative are the plates he uses for his numerous illustrations showing the jewelry itself, that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience."" - Dallas Morning News.""The wealth of detail, the exact documentation, and the excellent tables, charts and plates make The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths a book of exceptional worth."" - American Sociological Review.""The analysis of the economic aspects of the craft is painstaking and well carried out. Reading between the lines one must inevitable envisage the long weary hours spent in traveling to the isolated hogans and trading posts in quest of these data. This is no armchair compilation, but one that carries with it the tang of juniper wood burning in winter hogans, of the wet earth after a sturdy 'he' rain and the odor of coffee and mutton cooking over open fires. It is a labor of love plus a lot of sweat."" - New York Herald Tribune.For the first time in anthropological history, Mr. Adair presents the development of the Pueblo silversmiths and includes a roster of native Indian smiths which will delight the hearts of all collectors of silver. - New York Herald Tribune.

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Book SynopsisIn this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary silver designs, Spratling influenced an entire generation of Mexican and American silversmiths and transformed the tiny village of Taxco into the Florence of Mexico. Littleton widens the context of Spratling''s popular reputation by examining the formative periods in his life and art that preceded his brilliant entrepreneurial experiment in the Las Delicias workshop in Taxco, which left a permanent mark on Mexico''s artistic orientation and economic life.Spratling made a fortune manufacturing and designing silver, but his true life''s work was to conserve, redeem, and interpret the ancient culture of his adopted country. He explained for North American audiences the paintings of Mexico''s modern masters and earned distinction as a learned

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Book SynopsisLuke Morgan is Lecturer in the Department of Theory of Art and Design, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.Trade Review"Luke Morgan bracingly tests conjecture and assertion against evidence and a shrewdly developed chronology; he turns a coolly evaluative eye to the kinds of interpretive assumptions underlying previous accounts; and he develops a fresh picture of Caus, his career, and the intellectual culture of garden-making in the period." * Michael Leslie, Rhodes College *"A volume of interest not only to specialists in landscape history but also to all those concerned with the cultural history of the period." * Renaissance Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTracing the flows of people, material items, and digital content between Havana and Miami, as well as between Cuba and Panama, Guyana, and Mexico, this book demonstrates the worldmaking of marginalized Cuban communities in a transnational setting.

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Book SynopsisPresents Riegl's work as an examination of the categories of temporality and history in art. Supported by exploration of Riegl's writings, this work argues that Riegl viewed artworks as registering historical time visibly in artistic forms. It also demonstrates that Riegl is a pivotal figure in cultural theory.Trade ReviewTime's Visible Surface distinguishes itself from other books on Riegl by its strong theoretical awareness (especially the connection to Walter Benjamin), by its central emphasis on the theme of time, and by its careful reconstruction of Riegl's Austrian intellectual context, Gubser emphasizes the larger philosophical context and significance of Riegl's thought beyond the narrow disciplinary concerns of art historians, and he combines close textual analysis of Riegl's works with a thoughtful contextualization of Riegl's ideas. Gubser's argument challenges the predominant scholarly view that Austrian modernism was ahistorical or even antihistorical, and brings to light the extent of Riegl's influence on Benjamin. - David S. Luft, University of California, San Diego, author of Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer

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Book SynopsisDal. Picasso. Ernst. Magritte. Maddox. Breton. Artaud, Fondane, Masson--all are to be found in this gallery of surrealist artists. Focussing on surrealist visuality--defined as the visual expression of internal perception or, in Andr Breton's words, internal representation--the contributors to this handsomely illustrated volume shed new light on one of the twentieth century's most exciting cultural movements.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the history of the Japanese philosophy of art. The text explores the historical background and discusses aesthetic issues, while assessing the efforts made by Japanese thinkers to assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own artistic heritage.

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Book SynopsisSarah Baker is Lecturer in Culture and Context at the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has researched and published numerous articles focussed on consumption and domestic space.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Definitions and Distinctions of Retro Style 3. Retro Style and the Cultural Politics of Everyday Life 4. A History of the Retro Aesthetic 5. Retailing Retro 6. Retro Interiors and Lifestyle Media 7. Retro Homes, Taste and Cultural Distinction 8. Retro Femininities and Domestic Labour 9. Conclusion Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisGrace Lees-Maffei is reader in Design History and TVAD Research Group co-ordinator at the University of Hertfordshire and managing editor of the Journal of Design History. She is the editor of Writing Design: Words and Objects (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), and co-editor of The Design History Reader (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010). She is also author of Design at Home (2013).Kjetil Fallan is associate professor of Design History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Design History: Understanding Theory and Method (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010) and the editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and is also an editor of the Journal of Design History.Trade ReviewMade in Italy is an original attempt to address the issue of 'Rethinking a Century of Italian Design'. -- Vanni Pasca, Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design, Italy * The Journal of Design History *Made in Italy investigates the celebrated history of industrial design in modern Italy. It examines what makes an object Italian in a world characterized by increasingly interconnected production, marketing, and consumption networks…The book does several things well: it describes the complex synthesis of regional, national, and international influences that have combined to affect how Italian design is understood; brings attention to the influence of craft on Italian design history; and offers an extensive, up-to-date bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. -- A. R. Michelson, University of Washington Libraries * CHOICE *Made in Italy offers a multi-faceted picture of how the fiction of the nation has been edited and rewritten over the course of the 20th century in the service of yet another enduring fiction—one based on both the facts and myths of Italian design. This carefully curated collection of essays asks us to understand that the relationship between geography and design is, and was, never contained in a map but something far less stable—culture. -- Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The History of Italian Design, Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway, and Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire, UK 1. A Historiography of Italian Design, Maddalena Dalla Mura, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy, and Carlo Vinti, Università degli Studi di Camerino, Italy PART 1: ACTORS 2. Ettore Sottsass and Critical Design in Italy, 1965-1985, Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK 3. Domes to Domus (or how Roberto Mango brought the geodesic dome to the home of Italian design), Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Harvard University, USA 4. Tomás Maldonado and the Impact of the HfG Ulm in Italy, Raimonda Riccini, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy PART 2: CRAFTS 5. Craft, Industry and Art: ISIA (1922-1943) and the Roots of Italian Design Education, Elena Dellapiana, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and Daniela Prina, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 6. Manufactured Identities: Ceramics and the Making of (Made in) Italy, Lisa Hockemeyer, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Kingston University, UK 7. Crafting a Design Counterculture: the Pastoral and the Primitive in Italian Radical Design, 1972–1976, Catharine Rossi, Kingston University, UK PART 3: SPACES 8. Private Exhibitions: Galleries, Art and Interior Design, 1920-1960, Imma Forino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 9. Exhibiting Exhibitions: Designing and Displaying Fascism, Vanessa Rocco, Southern New Hampshire University, USA 10. This Way to the Exit: The Re-Writing of the City through Graphic Design (1964-1989), Gabriele Oropallo, University of Oslo, Norway PART 4: INDUSTRIES 11. Designing a New Society: A Social History of Italian Car Design, Federico Paolini, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy 12. Espresso by Design: The Creation of the Italian Coffee Machine, Jonathan Morris, University of Hertfordshire, UK 13. Italian Fashion: The Metamorphosis of a Cultural Industry, Simona Segre Reinach, Università di Bologna, Italy PART 5: MEDIATIONS 14. Annus Mirabilis: 1954, Alberto Rosselli and the Institutionalization of Design Mediation, Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway 15. A Vehicle for 'Good Italians': User Design and the Vespa Clubs in Italy, Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 16. ‘Made’ in England? The Mediation of Alessi S.p.A., Grace Lees-Maffei, University of Hertfordshire, UK Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTony Fry is an adjunct professor, Griffith University, Brisbane and is a visiting professor at several universities internationally. Tony has published ten books, including Becoming Human by Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2010) and Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2008).Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007).Susan C. Stewart is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Curriculum Development, Design School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Trade ReviewA forceful and inspiringly articulated set of essays ... Compelling and insightful. * Journal of Design History *This is a work of intense and vital scholarship. Fry, Dilnot and Stewart cut to the heart of what is at stake in how we question design, history, and the future. Design history will either rise to the challenge of this book or fade into irrelevance. -- Matthew Kiem, University of Technology Sydney: Insearch, AustraliaThe provocative essays in this volume are at once a critique of history and a call for its relevance to the present and future. Within the provocation is the question of how design and its history can inform our actions in a world that presents extreme difficulties but also unprecedented opportunities to create a positive future. -- Victor Margolin, University of Illinois, USADesign and the Question of History offers an ambitious, compelling, and urgent challenge to design studies and to history. The world we live in has been fashioned and fabricated by design. The futures we can live are determined by these histories. This is scholarship that matters. -- Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UKThis is unashamedly a work of design philosophy. In fact, it is exactly the kind of philosophy that is needed now, as it confronts vital issues not just for design and the ‘post-discipline’ of history, but also of ‘now’ and the future. Fry, Dilnot and Stewart approach their common project with different voices, their passion and seriousness shining throughout. -- Anne- Marie Willis, German University in Cairo, EgyptDesign and the Question of History argues that the world we inhabit, and its devastation, are thoroughly a product of design. This claim requires a rewriting of the relation between history and design, from which there emerges a powerful ontologically-oriented view of design that may lead us into entirely novel ways of worlding and visions of the human. -- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USATable of ContentsPreface, Pre-face Essential Reading Book 1: Wither Design/Whether History, Tony Fry Introduction 1. Rememberings & Dismemberings 2. Another History, Another Designing 3. Design in the Maelstrom of Time Book 2: History, Design, Futures, Clive Dilnot Preface Introduction: The structure of existence is undergoing a fundamental change 1. Unhappiness: Lack of History, Lack of the Future 2.The Artificial 3. Destructiveness and its Overcoming 4. Apparatus History Acting Book 3, Susan Stewart And so to another setting … … On Care and Education Index

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Book SynopsisChristina Riggs is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, UK.Trade ReviewEach chapter of this book represents one lecture from a series delivered in 2012 at All Souls College, Oxford …With 79 pages of notes and bibliography, the extensive research behind this book is well documented … The issues discussed go beyond the art historical. Riggs covers the psychology of entombing, hiding, and revealing in artistic, religious, and political contexts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. -- N. J. Mactague, Aurora University * CHOICE *This is a work of passion, poetically written and convincingly argued, which highlights the crucial role played by textiles, wrapping and concealment in the structuring of ancient Egyptian society. -- Sarah Griffiths * Ancient Egypt *An original and powerful volume ... Riggs provides a (very) critical history of Egyptology and related curatorial practices. The result is a book that not only wears its erudition lightly, but also challenges the legitimacy and apparent exceptionality of what it is that Egyptologists do. Opening Egyptology’s “black box,” Riggs makes a major contribution to understanding what that box might contain, in addition to how this understanding might change our perceptions of “ancient Egypt” and scholarly practices related to it. -- William Carruthers * Museum Anthropology Review *Dr Riggs’ book contains much of interest, presented in an ingenious way that raises issues that might not otherwise have easily sprung to mind and which should indeed be considered by anyone dealing with the study of the ancient world. -- Aidan Dodson * ASTENE Bulletin 63 *Riggs is, undeniably, spot-on with many of her observations. She is deliberately provocative and hopefully this book – an affordable paperback that [could] reach a wide audience – will not simply be dismissed as ‘trendy’ by the Establishment she critiques ... it should please the author that the book – perhaps the single most important on the subject of ‘Egyptology’ as a discipline of the last ten years – is already on the set reading list of archaeology students at Manchester University. -- Campbell Price * Egyptian Archaeology *Unwrapping Ancient Egypt is a riveting review and critique of Egyptological scholarship, studying a time-honored subject against a critical analysis of traditional western scientific approaches. Christina Riggs’ masterful intertwining of critical theory and thorough analysis provides important new insights. -- Willeke Wendrich, Professor of Egyptian Archeology, UCLA, USAChristina Riggs takes us on a lively exploration of Egyptology's prize finds and ably offers a fresh approach to familiar mummies and their textile bindings. As a means by which the dead and objects were sanctified and transformed, textile wrappings are presented as a structuring principle in ancient Egyptian society and discourse. -- Susanna Harris, ERC Research Associate, PROCON Project, UCL, UKThrough its focus on concealment and revelation, this beautifully written book raises ‘mummification’ from the realms of obscurity and curiosity, relocating it within a politics of the body that sheds light on both the deep past and contemporary practices of collection and display. It is an important contribution that cuts across the fields of art history, Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage, material culture, and museum studies. -- David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, University College London, UKMore poetry than prose, embroidered with details gleaned from her extensive knowledge and experience as an Egyptologist and museum curator, Riggs’ interwoven tale of two Egypts skillfully employs the metaphor of wrapping, the past (wrapped/concealed) and the perceived past (unwrapped/revealed), as a common thread that binds both worlds. -- Lorelei H. Corcoran, Professor and Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archeology, University of Memphis, USAThis book is a distinctive and significant contribution to the fields of Egyptology, anthropology, art history, and cultural studies. It is simultaneously a study of ancient Egypt and modern Western culture. In particular, the author examines the ancient Egyptian mortuary practices of wrapping and shrouding bodies, and the modern archaeological and museological practices of unwrapping bodies. -- Robert Preucel, Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Desecration Revelation Mummification Linen Secrecy Sanctity Afterword Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLouise Valentine is a senior researcher in Design and Craft at the University of Dundee, UK.Table of ContentsEditor’s Note Acknowledgements Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Introduction Louise Valentine Crafting Interactions: The Purpose and Practice of Serious Play Michael Schrage From Mari to Memphis: The Role of Prototypes in Italian Radical and Postmodern Design Catharine Rossi The Imaginative Use of Fictional Prototypes Fraser Bruce and Seaton Baxter Prototyping for the Design Spaces of the Future Elizabeth Sanders Handle with Care Hazel White Prototypes as a Central Vein for Knowledge Development Pieter Jan Stappers Techne and Logos at the Edge of Space Constance Adams Prototopia: Craft, Type and Utopia in Historical Perspective Frederic J. Schwartz High Value, Time-Poor Users Stuart I. Brown Computer-embedded Design: PAIPR Prototyping Steve Gill The RIP+MIX Method and Reflection on its Prototypes Rosan Chow Closing Remark Louise Valentine Index

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Book SynopsisSara Kristoffersson is guest professor of Design History and Theory at Konstfack National University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. She has published a number of articles on various aspects of design, fashion, art and architecture and lectures widely on these topics at museums and universities, including École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris, France; Parsons School of Design, New York, USA; the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.Trade ReviewEveryone should read [this]. * Swedish Design Research Journal *Sara Kristoffersson's monograph is a good example of emerging design research ... A superb analysis of the tenets and designs of the 1920s Bauhaus school as a utopia that never reached the stage of mass production, but which Ikea then took onboard after WWII. * ark: Finnish Architectural Review *An informative and thoughtful little book. * Scandinavian Studies *[Kristoffersson] deftly deals, in six information-packed chapters, with the background and reasons behind the phenomenal global success of IKEA ... A fascinating read. * TSS Reviews blog *Design by IKEA is the fist book to scrutinize the Swedish giant’s massive impact on contemporary design culture. Unpicking how the public image of IKEA has come to depend as much on the international image of Sweden as the other way around, Sara Kristoffersson critically assesses the company’s creative use of storytelling and stereotypes. -- Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, NorwayFinally, a critical and nuanced analysis of the world-dominating brand IKEA. Kristoffersson’s sharply honed prose reveals how the corporation has controversially come to define a nation, and how the inescapable ubiquity of its objects has transformed consumption on a global scale. Accessible and compelling, the book offers invaluable insight into the blurring of corporate, political and brand worlds in the 21st century. -- Alison J. Clarke University of Applied Arts Vienna, AustriaSara Kristoffersson manages to provide what Sweden and management scholars have been longing for: a cultural theorist's account of how a small company in the middle of Sweden has grown amazingly successful. With fresh eyes, she shows how cultural identity processes can build enormous wealth, national pride, and brand loyalty. -- Lars Strannegård, Stockholm School of Economics, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction Once upon a time… Ikea: A Swedish Story Beauty for Everyone From Copycat to Master of Style Democracy on Sale Sweden designed by Ikea

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