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John Murray Press Understand Contemporary Art Teach Yourself
Book SynopsisA straightforward guide to contemporary artWhether you love or loathe it, contemporary art is bound to trigger a reaction. Understand Contemporary Art delves deep into the art scene, exploring different forms including painting, scultpture, installation and video art. The key personalities, galleries and themes are discussed in detail as well as controversial competitions like the Turner Prize. Whether you are studying for a course of just want to be able to develop your own informed opinions on contemporary art, this straightforward guide will give you what you need.The colour plates referred to in this title can be downloaded at library.teachyourself.comTable of Contents : Preface : Acknowledgements : Personal introduction : 1 minute summary : 5 minute summary : 10 minute summary : 01 Introduction: contemporary art and aesthetics – theories of art making : What is contemporary art? : Things to remember : Suggestions for further reading : 02 the pre-history of contemporary art : Section 1 Defining terms : Section 2 The neo-avant-garde : Section 3 Reading contemporary art : Things to remember : Suggestions for further reading : 03 contexts for contemporary art : Section 1 The march of history : Section 2 Money makes the art go round : Section 3 Reality isn’t what it used to be : Things to remember : Suggestions for further reading : 04 forms of contemporary art : Introduction : Things to remember : Section 1 Painting, mixed media and sculpture : Painting and mixed media : Sculpture : Section 2 Photography : Things to remember : Section 3 Film, video and digital media : Film and video : Digital media : Things to remember : Section 4 Performance : Things to remember : Section 5 Installation : Things to remember : Section 6 Land and environment art : Things to remember : 05 themes and issues in contemporary art : Introduction : Things to remember : Section 1 Gender, sex and abjection : Gender and sex : Abjection : Things to remember : Suggestions for further reading : Section 2 Politics, difference and the global : Politics : Difference and the global : Section 3 Popular culture, the media, celebrity and consumerism : Popular culture and the media : Celebrity and consumerism : Things to remember : Suggestions for further reading : 06 displaying and buying contemporary art : Section 1 Contemporary art and the market - buying art : Art schools, institutes and colleges : Buying online : Section 2 Displaying contemporary art : Contemporary patronage – museums and big business : Where to see contemporary art : Contemporary art fairs : Section 3 Honouring contemporary art : Contemporary art awards : Things to remember : More information on buying art : Suggestions for further reading : Taking things further : Where to see contemporary art: museums and galleries : Finding out more about contemporary art: magazines and journals : Find out more about contemporary art: websites : Finding out more about contemporary artists: books : References
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Amateur Craft History and Theory
Book SynopsisStephen Knott is Director of the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham, a museum and research centre that is part of the University of the Creative Arts, UK. As a writer, researcher and lecturer in craft theory, design history and material culture, he has taught at Kingston University, UK and the Royal College of Art, UK and is one of the editors of The Journal of Modern Craft. He is author of Amateur Craft: History and Theory (Bloomsbury, 2015), and has written articles and reviews for Design and Culture, Performance Research, West 86th, Crafts and Craft Research. In 2018 he curated Tendenser at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway, a showcase of contemporary craft and edited the accompanying catalogue, and was co-curator for Presence and Absence at the Crafts Study Centre (2021-22), an exhibition which responds to the lack of diversity within the Centre's collections.Trade ReviewAmateur Craft is one of several craft-related titles published by Bloomsbury. Knott (independent scholar) strives to show how amateur and professional crafters can thrive in the same space and how their work can feed off the thoughts and processes of each other. Specifically, Amateur Craft is written to demonstrate that amateur need not indicate ‘inadequacy or shoddy work.’ The book is organized into three well-illustrated chapters. Chapter 1, "Surface," discusses the agents needed for amateur surface intervention—‘bases, carriers, and arbiters.’ Bases are the objects that provide the blank surface. Carriers are the goods that make intervention—or the craft making—possible. Finally, arbiters, e.g., handbooks and encyclopedias, provide guidance. Chapter 2, "Space," focuses on the role of space in everyday life, the organization of space, and aesthetics. The design and organization of space is essential for crafting of any type. Chapter 3, "Time," looks at amateur time, or free time, and its uses and benefits. Some amateur craft is derived from workplace time; at other times, it comes about because of nostalgia, desire, and sociability. Extensive endnotes and a detailed index support the text. Overall, this is a worthy resource for historians, artists, or amateur hobbyists interested in studying the development and breadth of amateur crafting. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. * CHOICE *Knott (who is undoubtedly an important up-and-coming voice in the world of craft criticism) does produce some fascinating stuff. He makes a number of salient points about the often-neglected value of amateur making while at the same time investigating arcane subjects ... Ultimately what Knott proves, in this politely disruptive book, is that the amateur and professional don't exist in separate silos. Instead, their practices bleeds into one another - one couldn't survive without the other ... Knott's book is a timely reminder of craft's breadth and everyday importance. -- Grant Gibson * Crafts Magazine *This book is a very interesting 'take' on amateur craft and the model railway hobby ... [and] potentially a standard reference for future social history students and researchers. -- Grahame Hedges * N Gauge Society Journal *Amateur Craft is an erudite and entertaining account of the foundations of craft practice. It tackles a subject too often ignored as lowbrow. Stephen Knott’s clear, resonant voice marks him out at the forefront of new craft writing. He makes us look at craft in the round. It is a fine, lucid study. -- Simon Olding, Director, Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, UKStephen Knott casts his net wide for examples of the intelligence, wildness and, yes, professionalism possible in the realm of amateur making. His thorough, thoughtful history and analyses make the case for the significance of “the amateur” in modern cultural history. -- Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado Denver, USAThoughtful, sustained and multifaceted... a welcome addition to existing academic literature on the topic. Rarely has craft practice been considered with the same intellectual weight as either fine art or design, and Amateur Craft demonstrates that its namesake practices are deserving of the rigorous analysis it delivers. * Anya Kurennaya, part-time art and design lecturer at Parsons School of Design, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Surface 2. Space 3. Time Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A John Heskett Reader
Book SynopsisClive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and, as co-author, Design and the Question of History (Bloomsbury, 2014).Trade ReviewThe Heskett reader is a must for designers, historians, economists, and students who are considering the charged relationship between design and the world. In a remarkable collection, Dilnot has brought together essays that make Heskett’s global and multidisciplinary reach evident. It is a pleasure to see Heskett’s classic texts - along with some of his unpublished work - brought together in one marvellous book. * Dr David Brody, Associate Professor of Design Studies at Parsons, The New School, USA *John Heskett’s personal voice, quiet intensity, and certain integrity bring to his writings on design an unshakeable sense of its profound implications. This collection encompasses early work in design history, reflections on design in business, and observations on design in Hong Kong, and also summarizes events of his substantial career. * Dr Jeffrey L Meikle, Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA *From design history’s early years in the 1970s to governments worldwide reengaging with design in the 2000s, Heskett brought a clear, inimitable voice to design writing, thinking and practice and shaped how generations of designers and historians learnt to see design: embedded in economic and social structures, and having real social and economic impact. The readings collected here underscore the importance of design for policymaking, past and present, and show how economics and policymaking benefit from a historian’s eye. His ideas are as fresh and important now as when first written. * Dr Sarah Teasley, Head of Programme for Design History at the V&A / Royal College of Art, UK *Heskett’s distinctive contribution to the early shaping of design history introduced social, political and economic history as integral dimensions of study and research in the field. He later contributed insights into design economics, policy and management at a time when such terms were too often bandied about imprecisely. * Jonathan M Woodham, Professor of Design History at the University of Brighton, UK *Clive Dilnot’s edition of A John Heskett Reader: Design, History, Economics is a curious anomaly to all of the above Reader categories. This is the first Reader in design history that is singularly arranged around the oeuvre of one of its pioneers…Dilnot’s mission is to present a selection of Heskett’s writing—not to pick it apart but to provide starting points for further enquiry. * Journal of Design History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Clive Dilnot I. Key Themes Introduction 1. What is Design? 2. Commerce or Culture? Industrialization and Design 3. Design from the Standpoint of Economics/Economics from the Standpoint of Design II. Design in History & the History of Design Introduction (A) Designing and Making in the Pre-Industrial World 4. Some Lessons of Design History 5. Crafts, Commerce, Industry 6. Chinese Design: What Can We Learn from the Past? 7. Three moments in the History of Making: Nomads, Traders, Slaves (B) Designing in the Industrial World 8. The 'American System' and Mass Production 9. Writing the History of Design in the Industrial World 10. The Growth of Industrial Design in Japan (C) Design in Germany 1870-1945 11. Government Policy & German Design 1870-1918 12. The Industrial Applications of Tubular Steel 13. Modernism and Archaism in Design in the Third Reich III. Design, Business, Economics Introduction (A) Corporate design strategies Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl: Design between Economics and Practice 14. GM: The Price of Corporate Arrogance 15. Everything Changes, Nothing Alters 16. Design Management in Phillips in the 1980s 17. Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: How RCA is using Design as a Strategic Tool 18. Current and Future Demands on Hong Kong Designers (B) National Design Policies Carlos Texeiria: John Heskett and design policy 19. National Design Policy and Economic Change 20. Learning from Germany's Integrated Design Policy 21. Design and Industry in China 22. A Design Policy for the UK: Three Suggestions (C) Creating Value by Design Tore Kristensen: John Heskett's contribution to the business and economics of design 23. Creative Destruction: The Nature and Consequences of Change through Design 24. Product Integrity 25. Cultural Human Factors 26: Creating Economic Value by Design IV. Reflections Introduction 27. Past, Present and Future in Design 28. Reflections on Design and Hong Kong 29. On Writing V. Last Words 30. Can the Centre Hold? List of acronyms Contributors Permissions and Acknowledgments Appendix: A first bibliography of John Heskett's published work Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Danish Modern Between Art and Design
Book SynopsisMark Mussari is an independent scholar, freelance writer, translator and consultant, based in Arizona, USA.Trade ReviewMark Mussari has sucessfully created an invaluable resource for understanding the foundation for the growth of modernist design in Denmark and its interaction with international tendencies. It functions as a superb overview of the ways in which Danish design developed in the important interwar and postwar years and it is an excellent textbook for teachers and students in universities, academies and design schools additionally a fine introduction for readers with an interest in Danish design and its impact on and relationship with international Modernism. * Dr Ida Engholm, Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts *Mussari's wonderful book will get all kinds of readers, from students to scholars to those who adore living with good design, to reevaluate their preconceptions about Danish design. Through a sophisticated historical lens that engages with theory and design practice, Mussari's Danish Modern is a revelation! * David Brody, Associate Professor of Design Studies at Parsons, The New School, USA *Considering contemporary receptions and radical, historical changes , Mussari delivers a rich account of Danish Modern beyond the praise of its ’timelessness'. Through their Danish writings, he positions such diverse designers as Henningsen, Juhl and Mogensen in an intricate exploration of aesthetics, ideologies and promotion as ongoing tensions in Danish design culture. * Dr Anders Munch, Professor of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Subject and Object Chapter 1: A History of Ideas: Constructing Danish Modern Chapter 2: Tradition and / or Modernism: Kaare Klint and Poul Henningsen Chapter 3: On Chairness: Platonics and Tectonics Chapter 4: Sculpting Articulations: Finn Juhl in 1949 Chapter 5: Weaving Abstractions: Vibeke Klint and Lis Ahlmann Chapter 6: Hegelian Reading: Designing Community in the SAS Royal Hotel Chapter 7: The Happening: Making Modern Contemporary (Again) Chapter 8: Minimal Connections: Design as Art / Art as Design Chapter 9: Thematizing Danish Modern: the Arts of Denmark Exhibition Chapter 10: Viking Bracelets and Steampunk Eggs: Invariance or Timelessness? Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Five Egyptian Goddesses
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the earliest appearances and functions of the five major Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys. Although their importance endured throughout more than three millennia of ancient Egyptian history, their origins, earliest roles, and relationships in religion, myth, and cult have never before been studied together in detail. Showcasing the latest research with carefully chosen illustrations and a full bibliography, Susan Tower Hollis suggests that the origins of the goddesses derived primarily from their functions, as, shown by their first appearances in the text and art of the Protodynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods of the late fourth and third millennia BCE. The roles of the goddess Bat are also explored where she is viewed both as an independent figure and in her specific connections to Hathor, including the background to their shared bovine iconography. Hollis provides evidence of the goddesses' close ties with royalty and, in theTrade ReviewThe latest volume in the excellent Bloomsbury Egyptology series ... An important work for any scholar of Egypt's religious tradition – with extensive notes and bibliography taking up at least one third of the volume – while at the same time offering an enjoyable read for anyone with an interest in Egypt's great goddesses. * Ancient Egypt *This book is an excellent place for anyone looking to learn more about the major goddesses of ancient Egypt, and is particularly useful to Egyptologists as a baseline source when beginning new research. * Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt *Table of ContentsList of figures Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Neith Chapter 2: Hathor Excursus 1: Bat Excursus 2: Cattle Chapter 3: Nut Chapter 4: Isis and Nephthys Conclusion List of Abbreviations Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sex and Suits The Evolution of Modern Dress
Book SynopsisAnne Hollander was an independent scholar and critic whose work changed the way we look at fashion and art. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and former president of PEN American Center, she was the author of several influential books on the subject of costume and fabric in art, including Seeing through Clothes, Sex and Suits and Fabric of Vision. She also published Moving Pictures about the influence of painting on cinema, and Feeding the Eye, a selection of essays. Her highly innovative books are rigorous, stylish, provocative and insightful.Trade ReviewAnne Hollander's Sex and Suits was, and remains, a major contribution to the study of fashion. * Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT, New York, US *Entrancing, vivacious…[a] dazzling, whirlwind account of Western costume. * John Updike, The New Yorker *Anne Hollander, who died in 2014, was the Ernst Gombrich of fashion history … [This is] a confident survey of the field … Her text is full of provocations, in particular the idea that women’s fashion has historically always lagged behind men’s. * London Review of Books *Hollander rides her theories like a surfer, and her wittiest prose retains the note of generosity that gives human curiosity its moral weight. * Diane Middlebrook, The Los Angeles Times *To fully appreciate the suit’s aesthetic and erotic success, Hollander treats us to an unfailingly insightful, creative and provocative history of modern fashion. She maintains a rich cultural context while pondering the interplay between sex and the imagination, idealized gender roles and clothing, fashion’s unreliability and irony, and the crucial roles the printing press and camera have played in Western fashion’s global dominance. * Donna Seaman, Booklist *Hollander’s clear, brisk style packs every paragraph with provocative ideas. What is the T-shirt but male underwear with an imprinted motto, a provisional tattoo? * Robert Taylor, Boston Globe *Iconoclastic, continually stimulating. * Publishers Weekly Review *Hollander’s unique cadence remains as compelling as ever and her deployment of crisp phrasing is often rather witty — to achieve this whilst remaining unequivocally academic in one’s discussion is no mean feat, and this is testament to her skill as an essayist. * Costume *Brilliant, funny ... [Sex and Suits is] an exuberant and upbeat story of the expression of sexual fantasy in dress ... a captivating book. * Martha C. Nussbaum, Philosophical Interventions *Examining the relationship between genders as represented through clothing from Medieval times to the 1990s, Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander has become a classic within the field of fashion studies. Though written two decades ago in 1994, the book is still extremely relevant today…an immensely informative and interesting read. * The Fashion Studies Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. INTRODUCTION Sex and the Modern Form What Fashion Is II. THE WORK OF FASHION Fashion, Non-fashion and Anti-fashion Meaning in Fashion Form and Sexuality Early Fashion History Later Changes Female Invention III. THE GENESIS OF THE SUIT The Great Divide Reason and Fantasy Sobriety and Simplicity Antique Natural Nudity Heroes in Wool Neo-classic Erotics Ready-made Men The Once and Future Suit IV. MODERNITY Worth and His Effects Reforming Women Stays Redesigning Women Modern Transformations Recent Revolutions V. NOWADAYS Informalities Sexualities Revelations Anxieties Perceptions Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Civic Aesthetics
Book SynopsisNoa Roei is Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis department at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a research fellow at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis.Trade ReviewCivic Aesthetics is an original contribution to an understanding of the links among culture, art, and militarism. Roei skillfully employs a complex academic and artistic perspective in order to problematize the very basic questions of art and Israeli identity. This book will surely serve as a worthwhile resource for scholars from a diverse range of disciplines. * Israel Studies Review *Noa Roei’s Civic Aesthetics traces the evolution and the centrality of militarism in post 1948 Israeli art and visual culture. Engaging closely with and offering nuanced readings of a wide-range of artworks including: paintings, photography, exhibit catalogues and other visual installations, the book exposes the ‘open secret’ of militarism as the key feature, governing and dictating the constitution of much of Israel’s visual artistic production. It is a must-read for anyone who wishes a better understanding of the intricate relationship between politics and aesthetics, the military and the civic, as well as the visible and invisible in the context of today’s and yesterday’s visual culture in Israel. * Gil Z. Hochberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *Civic Aesthetics is a highly original and profoundly significant publication that enhances our understanding of contemporary Israeli art, culture and society. Roei’s rigorous multidisciplinary scholarship is embedded within a nuanced theoretical framework, as she cogently demonstrates how various military ‘components’ manifest themselves within Israeli visual culture, both explicitly and implicitly. Roei’s subtle understanding of how visible or invisible contexts or ‘framing devices’ shape vision itself -- exposing sights, oversights, and blind spots – and her examination of the simultaneous complicity and criticality inherent in cultural artifacts and practiced by artists and viewers alike – present eye-opening issues vis-à-vis the complexities that bind art and politics. Roei’s lucid and fascinating text concerning Israeli culture, goes well beyond its specific locus, and offers a prime example of the poignancy and potency of “visual epistemology” as a mode of knowing and understanding. * Gannit Ankori, Professor of Art History and Theory, Brandeis University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction In Search of a Civic Aesthetics Between Critique and Complicity Showing Seeing: The Critical Image Chapter 1: Can(n)ons of Israeli Society Frames and Set-Ups Soldier Figures, Civilian Militarism, and Israeli Art Taking Sides: Exhibitions as Framing Agents Visual Performatives Critical Frictions Chapter 2: Bodies of the Nation: Eroticized Soldiers Serial Quotations National Bodies Rewriting the Jewish Body, Again Women Soldiers Queer Dreams of the Nation Chapter 3: Looking Through Landscape The Landscape Way of Seeing The “Stifling of the Gaze” Israeli Mindscapes Chapter 4: Kebab in Theory: Mapping Vision Zooming in on the Thinking Image Contesting Mis/interpretations The Archaeology of the Still Life: Bringing back the Anti-Image Distortion and Desire: The Mapping Impulse Seeing Green: Shaping Emplacement Chapter 5: Greetings to the Soldier-Citizen: Consuming Nostalgia Peace, Security, and Sparkles From Guns to Cream Cheese The Politics of Nostalgia Preposterous Postcards The Limits of Critical Discourse Chapter 6: Fence Art: Re/Framing Politics Bil’in and Beyond: Aesthetics of Disagreement Redistributing Visibility Changing Contexts, Shifting Frames Conclusion: the Work, the World, and the Critical Image Works Cited Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Advertising Menswear Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945 Dress and Fashion Research
Book SynopsisPaul Jobling is Researcher in Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, UK. He is the author of Man Appeal (Berg, 2005).Trade ReviewFascinating as a study of changing attitudes and technologies over the second half of the 20th century ... The attempts of menswear advertisers to anticipate, respond to, and initiate changes from a postwar setting of mainly static images and relatively static mores to the unimaginably transformed, contemporary technologies and standards is chronicled in a straightforward and entertaining way ... The book deserves a broad audience. * CHOICE *Rooted in archival research and through rich illustrations and extensive appendices, Jobling has given us yet another piece of quality scholarship. This text will appeal to researchers interested in the representation of clothing and fashion, masculinities and ‘Britishness’, and to scholars of dress and fashion history, media culture, modern British history and transatlantic culture more generally. -- Mario J. Roman, London College of Fashion * Costume *Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, this pioneering study examines the production, circulation and consumption of print, television and cinema publicity for men's clothing in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. * Costume Society of America *This book provides a well-structured analysis of advertising menswear in Britain, gauging the dynamics of war, class, race, gender, age and textile science that transformed the communication medium. A compilation of striking imagery, visual analysis, compelling discourse and chronology establishes this scholarship as a decisive resource informing the methodology of past and contemporary global menswear brands. -- Alphonso McClendon, Drexel University, USAPaul Jobling’s Advertising Menswear is that rare study that is able to combine distinctive close reading of individual cultural texts with expansive and thickly documented historical reconstruction. Truly remarkable in its reach and sensitivity, this book should stand as a model for measured inquiry at the intersection of masculinity and material culture. -- James Hall, Rochester Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsINTRODUCTION PART ONE Going for a Burton: menswear advertising from austerity to affluence, 1945-1957 Introduction 1.0: The post-war market for men’s clothing 2.0: Menswear advertising: agents, accounts and audiences: ‘Will it be seen? Will it be remembered?’ Will it be “accepted”?’ 3.0: The economics of press advertising 4.0: The design and rhetoric of menswear press advertisements 5.0: The art versus commerce debate 6.0: Poster publicity and menswear 7.0: Early commercial television and menswear, 1955-1960 8.0: The impact of consumer psychology and motivation research 9.0: ‘Feeling with’ and ‘feeling into’: appealing to men and women 10.0: The turn to new consumers and youth culture PART TWO Thinking young: menswear advertising and the generation games, 1958-1978 Introduction 1.0: Sedimenting the youth market 2.0: Cinema and television advertising 3.0: Menswear advertising in newspapers and magazines 4.0: Poster publicity and menswear 5.0: ‘You bring the body, we’ve got the clothes’: publicity for tailors 6.0: From dummies to dandies 7.0: Ironing out the creases: artificial fibres and menswear advertising 8.0: Synthesising sex: the utopian and ludic valorization of artificial and natural fibres 9.0: ‘Cloth for Men’: wool and he whisper of darker things 10.0: Looking good, feeling good 11.0: The changing of the guard PART THREE Leader of the pack: jeans advertising since the 1960s Introduction 1.0: The Jeans market and advertising between 1950-1985 2.0: Levi’s 501: back to the future 3.0: Here comes the new man – again 4.0: A soundtrack for consumerism: music, image and myth 5.0: More than just a number 6.0: Racial sameness and racial difference 7.0: From ‘Mothers’ to ‘Flat Eric’ EPILOGUE Getting the Right Fit – Objects/Images/Readers Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) How to Sleep
Book SynopsisMatthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is co-author of Evil Media (2012), Editor of Software Studies: a Lexicon (2008) and co-editor of the journal Computational Culture.Trade ReviewMatthew Fuller has composed a revelatory and brilliantly original book. This richly insightful and multifaceted work will be indispensable reading for anyone concerned with the increasingly urgent problem of sleep. -- Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USAWhere do you fall when you fall asleep? Out of consciousness and into a state of quasi-death, or into an unconscious form of activity? Do you withdraw from the world or get projected upon it differently? Who is the subject of sleep? Like love, sleep makes us creative and vulnerable at the same time. It is a democratic state, yet inaccessible to phenomenological accounts: it does not even make sense to state: “I am asleep”, and yet sleep deprivation is torture. Arguing passionately that sleep is both our posthuman, animal core and a form of power, this original volume performs a series of sleep acts, ranging from insomnia, apnea, narcolepsy, to sleep-walking, doziness, cataplexy and plain not wanting to wake up. In a brilliant combination of aphorisms, meditations, snippets of self-help and shreds of critical analysis, the book explores the bio-politics of sleep, as well as its social, psychological and aesthetic aspects. This is Matthew Fuller at his best: witty, theoretically sharp and thoroughly enjoying his inimitable flair for paradoxes. -- Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of Contentspreface acknowledgements 1. How to Sleep 2. Without Thinking 3. Dormant 4. I Don't Want to be Awake 5. The Domestic Architecture of the Skull 6. Heroes of Sleep 7. Too Much Dream 8. Mediating 8. Sleep Acts 9. Repulsive Sleep 10. Ingredients of Sleep 11. Sleep Gltiches 12. Body Parts 13. Be Unconscious 14. The Luxuriance of Dissolving 15. Free-Running 16. Sleep in Love 17. Vulnerable 18. Hyperpassivity 19. The Eye Busy Unseeing 20. How to Thrive Biologically 21. Repetition 22. Architecture 23. Laws Governing Sleep 24. Film Sleep 25. Man Controls the Day.But We Will Control the Night 26. Headless Brim 27. Trains and Buses 28. The Smell of Sleep 29. The Child's Bed 30. Brain as Labourer 31. Melnikov’s Promethean Sleepers 32. Sleep on the Road 33. Terraforming 34. Dozy-looking 35. Nocturne 36. Waking Up 37. Equipment 38. Sleep Upright In Order to Avoid Death 39. Animal Sleep 40. Wrap Up Warm bibliography index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Modern Asian Design Cultural Histories of Design
Book SynopsisD.J. Huppatz is Deputy Department Chair of Interior and Industrial Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has edited the four volume Design: Critical and Primary Sources (2016), and has contributed chapters and articles to a number of journals and edited volumes, including the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design (2015).Trade ReviewHuppatz’s book is a welcome addition to a growing field … [It] is hoped that viewpoints and writings on Asian Design will multiply in the coming years to create a more robust and inclusive global design history landscape. * Journal of Design History *Modern Asian Design is a rich and timely contribution to the emergent body of research on design histories beyond the West. The book expands our knowledge of modern design in Asia and provides methodological approaches to studying what are often viewed as marginal contexts in design history. * Megha Rajguru, Senior Lecturer in Art and Design History at the University of Brighton, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Foundations, 1700-1850 - Part I: China from China - Part II: Textiles from India - Part III: Modernization, Globalization and Design SECTION I: PATHS TO MODERNITY, 1850s-1930s Chapter 2: Elite Paths - Part I: Meiji Japan: Designing a Modern State - Part II: Siam and Civilization - Part III: Modernizing Everyday Life in Tashio Japan Chapter 3: Colonial Paths - Part I: Designing the British Raj - Part II: Designing an Asian Empire Chapter 4: Professional Paths - Part I: East Meets West - Part III: Shanghai Modernism - Part II: West Meets East Chapter 5: Consumer Paths - Part I: The Herald of Civilization - Part II: New Patent Medicines - Part III: The Department Store SECTION II: ASIAN MODERNITY, 1940s-2000s Chapter 6: Postcolonial Design and the State - Part I: Chandigarh - Part II: Designing the People’s Republic of China - Part III: Singapore Chapter 7: Design and Development - Part I: From Domestic Appliances to Digital Lifestyles - Part II: Design for Development Chapter 8: The Design Professional - Part I: Kenji Ekuan - Part II: Minnette de Silva - Part III: Kan Tai-Keung Chapter 9: Globalization and Consuming Asian Design - Part I: Rebranding banks in Hong Kong - Part II: Asian lifestyle brands Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Measured Words
Book SynopsisMeasured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista Della Porta. Although these Renaissance humanists came from different social classes and practised the mathematical and literary arts at varying levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the literary arts and mathematics yielded extraordinary results, from Alberti’s treatise on cryptography and Pacioli’s design calculations for the Roman alphabet to Tartaglia’s Trade Review"Together with her lively writing style, Saiber’s erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students." -- Renzo Baldasso * Renaissance Quarterly *"The author connects to mathematics in many fascinating ways. In addition to the superb analysis of four case studies – Alberti, Paciolo, Tartaglia, and Della Porta, the reader is treated to an assortment of images that help visualize the connection each Renaissance man imagined. Highly recommended." -- T. Timmons * Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018 *"Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of computus (of numbers and proportions or geometry in theory and practice), and the history of printing and type design. With her remarkable stamina to explore rarely studied 'difficult' texts, and with her admirable command of older and more recent scholarly literature on her topic, Saiber thereby demonstrates for instance the intimate relationship between the advent of printing and the designer’s task of mathematical proportions of letters – and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text." -- Sergius Kodera, New Design University * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Well-Versed Mathematics The Four / Beautiful Minds / With Measured Words Chapter One Cryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti’s De componendis Cifris (1466) Deciphering De Cifris / Writing in Code Chapter Two The Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli’s “degno alphabeto Anticho” (1509) Prelude: Pacioli Portrait / The Nexus of the Divina proportione / Lettergons / Not All That Glitters Is Gold / Divine Characters Chapter Three Word Problems: Niccolò Tartaglia’s “Quando chel cubo” (1546) The Cubic Scandal / A Poetic Solution Chapter Four Hidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta’s Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/10) The Vanishing Act / A Wave of the Hand Notes Bibliography Index
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