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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 47/2015:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 48/2016:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 49/2017:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 50/2018:
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£26.10
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Gutshof Und Das Graberfeld Bei
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Goldmunzenschatz Aus Der Feldstrasse
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Trierer Zeitschrift 79/80 2016/2017: Archaologie
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£68.40
Dr Ludwig Reichert St. Simeon in Trier Zwischen Renovatio Und
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£111.15
Aarhus University Press Excavating The Mind: Cross-Sections Through
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£48.04
Aarhus University Press Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics &
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Silvana Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and the Cultures of
Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Antonio Aimi and Antonio Guarnotta, offers a new, up-to-date study of the most important cultures of Mesoamerica and of the Peruvian Area, through magnificent artefacts held by the MIC (Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza) and various other Italian museums. The cultures of the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and other populations of ancient America are analysed in light of the most recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research. Themes of prime importance are examined in depth: the conquest of America as seen from the point of view of the conquered, the status of women, the systems of calculation of ancient Peru, and pre-Columbian art presented as art, not only as archaeology. Text in English and Italian.
£23.96
Mimesis International The Size Effect: A Journey into Design, Fashion
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, the authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach overcoming the boundaries of their discipline. Through different perspectives this volume presents and develops new paradigms that explain the complexities of the contemporary era and its new sizes.
£11.25
Five Continents Editions Prisoners' Objects - Collection of the
Book SynopsisThe International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum houses an extraordinary collection of 'prisoners' objects'. These were made by prison inmates and presented to the ICRC delegates who visited them, as provided for by the Geneva Conventions. For over a century, these objects have borne mute witness to the numerous violent episodes that continue to ravage our planet, from Chile, Vietnam, Algeria and Yugoslavia, to Rwanda and Afghanistan. Made from simple materials - whatever comes to hand in a prison - these objects express the need to escape the world of the jailbird. As a Lebanese inmate puts it, 'Creating is a way of acquiring freedom of expression, it gives us a means to say what we think while everything we see around urges us to keep quiet and to forget who we are.' While some of these works touch us through their simplicity, others astonish us with their beauty or ingeniousness. Each bears the imprint of a personal story loaded with emotion, inviting us on a journey through time and collective history.
£23.99
Brill Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive analysis of clothing in Late Period Egypt (750 to 332 BC) through a comparison of representations on reliefs, paintings, and statues to preserved textiles, and supplemented by references in ancient texts. It shows the historical evolution of clothing that extends far beyond the Late Period. The book reveals the influence of archaism and innovation, as well as how clothes reflect geography, ethnicity, and social roles. It provides some new criteria for dating and interpretation of representations through careful examination of changes in Egyptian fashion. The resulting work is of value to anyone studying dress in ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations How to Use This Book Notes on the Transliteration and Transcription of Egyptian Names and Words 1 Introduction: Researching Late Period Egyptian Clothing 1.1 Purpose of the Study 1.2 Difficulties and Challenges: Preliminary Observations 1.3 Private Clothing / Non-royal Clothing 1.4 Chronological Framework 1.5 Corpus of Visual Sources and Their Limitations 1.6 Methods and Methodology 2 Ancient Egyptian Garments 2.1 Two Groups of Egyptian Garments 2.2 Linen and Egyptian Garments 2.3 Represented vs. Excavated Garments 2.4 Reading Ancient Egyptian Garments from Iconographic and Archaeological Sources 2.5 Nomenclature of Egyptian Clothing 2.6 Analysis of Rendered Garments 3 Male Clothing 3.1 Kilts—Introduction 3.2 Hip-Cloth (Open Kilt) 3.3 Short and Long Kilts 3.4 High-Waisted Kilt 3.5 Other Kilts 3.6 Shendjyt (Kilt Type 6) 3.7 Sashes 3.8 Tunic and Single-Strap Undergarment 3.9 Pelt Vestment 3.10 Shawls and Cloaks 4 Female Clothing 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Women in Late Period Art 4.3 Dresses before the Late Period 4.4 Wraparound Dresses (Type 1) 4.5 Wraparound Dress Tied under Breast (Type 2) 4.6 Bead-Net Dress (Type 3) 4.7 Tunics (Type 4) 4.8 Conclusion 5 Final Conclusions 6 Tables—Catalogue of Analyzed Objects 6.1 Hip-Cloth (Chapter 3.2): Tables 6.2 Short and Long Kilt (Chapter 3.3): Tables 6.3 High-Waisted Kilt (Chapter 3.4): Tables 6.4 Other Kilts (Chapter 3.5): Tables 6.5 Shendjyt (Chapter 3.6): Tables 6.6 Sashes (Chapter 3.7): Tables 6.7 Tunics and Single-strap Undergarment (Chapter 3.8): Tables 6.8 Pelt Vestment (Chapter 3.9): Tables 6.9 Cloaks and Shawls (Chapter 3.10): Tables 6.10 Wraparound Dresses (Types 1) (Chapter 4-4): Tables 6.11 Wraparound Dress (Type 2) (Chapter 4-5): Tables 6.12 Bead-net Dress (Type 3) (Chapter 4-6): Tables 6.13 Tunic (Type 4) (Chapter 4-7): Tables Appendix 1: Typology of Late Period Clothing Appendix 2: Chronology Bibliography Index Plates List of Copyrightholders
£209.00
Brill The Conformed Body Contemporary Art in China
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£135.90
Brill Saved from Desert Sands
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£138.60
Peeters Publishers The Iconography of Magic: Images of Power and the
Book SynopsisThe study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.
£100.07
Sidestone Press Collecting Kamoro
Book SynopsisThe story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. By considering objects as visualizations of social relations, and as enactments of personal, social or historical narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting, representation, patronage and objectification.
£34.00
Nordic Academic Press Expanding media histories: Cultural and material
Book SynopsisContemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first part centres on media systems and media events, with studies of spiritist séances, Gallup polls, the mediated persona of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the burial of a Swedish elder statesman in 1915. The second part focuses on media materialities and infrastructure such as art replicas, ring binders, tourist guidebooks, and media technology in the IKEA home. Aimed at students and academics alike, Expanding Media Histories offers new empirical research, which engages critically with key concepts in media history today.
£45.95
Leuven University Press At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting
Book SynopsisDomestic materiality in a remarkable European cityHow did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory as a source and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the daily activities of men and women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges’ middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings and images of furniture and textiles from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).“Be careful with formulating large stories and generalisations about evolution in material culture and consumption culture. Each (urban) community has its own story to tell.” Read a Q&A with Julie De GrootTrade ReviewBrugge was een ontmoetingsplaats voor humanistische geleerden, maar hoe creëerden de Bruggelingen een thuis, hoe zag een gewoon wooninterieur eruit in de 16de eeuw, en nog belangrijker, hoe bestudeer je eigenlijk de huiselijke cultuur van vervlogen tijden door documenten zoals nalatenschapsinventarissen te analyseren? Door objecten, mensen en huiselijke ruimtes, nauwgezet met elkaar te verbinden, laat het boek, “At Home in Renaissance Bruges” kennismaken met de rijke materiële wereld van de Brugse burgers in de Renaissance, hun zintuiglijke betrokkenheid, hun religieuze praktijk, de dagelijkse activiteiten van zowel mannen als vrouwen, en andere sociale factoren.Michel Dutrieue, Stretto, 28 april 2022“The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.”, zei de bekende interieurarchitect David Hicks ooit. De publicatie At home in Renaissance Bruges van historica Julie De Groot beaamt dit. Aan de hand van boedelinventarissen worden verschillende levens van Bruggelingen uit de zestiende eeuw opnieuw zichtbaar gemaakt. Michelle Coenen, Bladspiegel, 29 juli 2022As De Groot shows, the resulting economic downturn was not as severe as past scholarship assumed, but there was nevertheless a gradual decrease of industry and trade, a loss of international connections, and an exodus of merchants and skilled artisans, including painters. Thus, At Home in Renaissance Bruges allows an unusual peek into the homes of a city that was still of substance but had effectively been reduced to a middling position in its own right, following the fashions of Antwerp rather than setting trends for others.Rembrandt Duits, Journal of Design History, epac047, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epac047 Dit boek handelt over de materiële cultuur van de huizen van de Brugse middenklasse. Tot nu toe werd dit aspect weinig onderzocht: hoe leefden die mensen in het Brugge van de 16de eeuw? Hoe richtten ze hun woningen in? Welk meubilair kochten ze aan? Hoe versierden ze de binnenruimte? Deelstudies focusten op een facet van het dagelijks leven, geïnspireerd door de archeologie, de bouwgeschiedenis, de kunstgeschiedenis en de materiële culturele studies. Dit boek doet een poging om al deze facetten van ruimtes, bewoners en objecten in één studie samen te brengen. [...] De gedegen en wetenschappelijke studie is niet bedoeld als een mooi kijkboek over interieurs van de 16de eeuw. De illustraties, grotendeels gebundeld achteraan, zijn beperkt gehouden en het formaat van de papieren paperbackversie is dat van een leesboek. In elk geval een origineel en gefundeerd onderzoek! Marjan Buyle, M&L, 41-5 (2022) Much scholarship on sixteenth-century material culture in the Netherlands focuses on the cosmopolitan metropolis of Antwerp and, more specifically, its wealthy entrepreneurs. Julie De Groot’s choice to study Bruges’s non-elite households is, therefore, a much welcome – and much needed – addition to the research on domestic objects and domesticity in the 1500s, even more so as the study is available both in paperback and as an open-access e-book. As the author convincingly argues, Bruges offers an interesting case study because it illustrates a ‘gradual transition [...] from an international metropolis to a sizeable provincial centre’. Likewise, by concentrating on the neither wealthy nor poor ‘middling sort’, and on shopkeepers and artisans in particular, At Home in Renaissance Bruges provides information on the material fabric of ordinary burghers’ lives in the turbulent sixteenth century. Barbara Kaminska, bmgn — Low Countries Historical Review | Volume 137 (2022), https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.13449Er gaat sedert de jaren 2000 heel wat aandacht naar materiële cultuur bij de gewone man in de loop van de geschiedenis. Dit boek hoort perfect in dat rijtje thuis. Wat stond er in de huizen (in dit geval van Brugse burgers met een beetje centen) in de Bourgondische tijd? En wat leert ons de connectie tussen archivalische en picturale bronnen? Staan in musea de voorwerpen die we geschilderd zien? De Groot heeft jarenlang gewerkt aan de connectie en is tot interessante bevindingen gekomen.Christusrex.be, 20.02.2023De Groot’s extensive and meticulous statistical analysis of inventory evidence, focus on the middling sort, and her interest in how identities were created and displayed via everyday household objects locates her work firmly among English scholarship on the home. Sarah Hinds, TSEG, VOL. 20, NO. 1, 2023, https://tseg.nl/article/view/13624/15552Table of ContentsGENERAL INTRODUCTION The Spatial Turn Reclaiming Domesticity At Home in Renaissance Bruges Sources and Challenges The Structure of the Book PART 1CROSSING THE THRESHOLD: THE ORGANISATION OF DOMESTIC SPACEINTRODUCTION Functional Specialisation: A Subject of Discussion What’s in a Name? The Nomenclature of Domestic Space CONNECTING THE HOUSE TO THE STREET? THE SHOP AND WORKSHOP Introduction ‘Historians and the Nation of Shopkeepers’ Shops and Shopping in Bruges Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture THE MERCHANT IN THE CONTOOR Introduction The Contoor in Bruges Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture AT THE HEART OF THE HOME: ROOMS AT THE HEART OF DOMESTIC CULTURE The Kitchen in Bruges Dining Room and Salette The Elusive Realm of Sleep: Sleeping Rooms Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture PART 2DOMESTIC OBJECTS IN CONTEXTINTRODUCTION DEVOTION ON DISPLAY? PAINTINGS IN DOMESTIC INTERIORS Introduction What’s in a Name? Possessing Paintings in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges Canvas and Panel Paintings Paintings and Iconographical Themes Devotion on Display Conclusions FOR PUBLIC ELEGANCE AND PRIVATE COMFORT: TEXTILES AND FURNITURE Introduction Comfort and the Textile Environment The Seat of Authority? The Design and Social Character of Seating Furniture Show Me Your Bed and I’ll Tell You Who You Are! Keeping Up Appearances? Tapestry in the Domestic Interior A Colourful Interior Exposing or Storing Textiles: The Garderobe and the Cleerschaprade Conclusions GENERAL CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX 1: INVENTORY HOLDERS WHO WORKED AT HOME APPENDIX 2: INVENTORIES WITH ‘CONTOOR’ NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY PLATES
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Amsterdam University Press Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century
Book SynopsisPortrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations, in introducing modern design and modern ways of living to China. It investigates this through an analysis of how women and modern design were represented in the advertisements, photographs, and films of Republican-era China. This study explores the intersection of modernity and the Chinese woman, as they negotiated their changing identities through, and with, new designs that proliferated in Chinese households in the first half of the twentieth century. The advertisements, mass media, photographs and films took on the function of social conditioning, conveying to the viewers ideas of modern social standards, behavior and appearances. With women both instrumentalised within these images, and addressed through them, their visual representations became metaphors that fashioned a new portrait of China, while concurrently impacting on the identity, agency and subjectivity of women themselves.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Traditional Material Culture and Lifestyles in the Age of Modernity Chapter 3: Femininity and Social Changes as seen through Meiren Hua and Advertising Posters Chapter 4: The Idealized Woman and The Tasteful Consumer Chapter 5: Female Subjectivity Chapter 6: Epilogue
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Amsterdam University Press The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 and Its Global
Book SynopsisThe Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain. This book pioneers in reconstructing the global image discourse related to the event by bringing together visualizations from three decades and four continents. These include paintings, engravings, a statue, coins, emblems, miniatures, a miraculous crosier and other regalia, buildings, textiles, a castrum doloris, drawings, and ivory statues. Situated within the academic field of visual studies, the book interrogates the role of images and depictions before, during, and after the overthrow and how they functioned within the intercontinental communication processes in the Portuguese Empire. The results challenge the conventional notion of center and periphery and reveal unforeseen entanglements as well as an unexpected agency of imagery from the remotest regions under Portuguese control. The book breaks new ground in linking the field of early modern political iconography with transcultural art history and visual studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Signs, Miracles, and Conspiratorial Images II.The Lisbon Miracle of the Crucifix (1 December 1640) III. The New King’s Oath (15 December 1640) IV. Acclamations V. Lisbon VI. Images in Diplomatic Service VII. The Imaculada as Portugal’s Patroness VIII. The Funeral Apparatus of John IV (November 1656) IX. The Drawings in the Treatise of António de São Tiago (Goa 1659) X. Ivory Good Shepherds as Visualizations of the Portuguese Restoration Conclusion Bibliography Acknowledgements Picture Credits Index
£142.50
Amsterdam University Press Architecture, Opportunity, and Conflict in
Book SynopsisThe catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island’s south-west. The rebuilding extended into the eighteenth century and gave opportunities for the reassertion and the transformation of power relations. Although eight of the towns are now protected by UNESCO, the remarkable architecture resulting from this rebuilding is little known outside Sicily. This is the first book-length study in English of this interesting area of early modern architecture. Rather than seek to address all of the towns, five case studies discuss key aspects of the rebuilding by approaching the architecture from different scales, from that of a whole town to parts of a town, or single buildings, or parts of buildings and their decoration. Each case study also investigates a different theoretical assumption in architecture, including ideas of the Baroque, rational planning, and the relegation of decoration in architectural discourse.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. The Val di Noto Rebuilding. Disaster and Opportunity Chapter One. Sicily as a Colonial Possession c. 1600–1750. Subordination and Resistance Chapter Two. The Hexagonal Towns of Avola and Grammichele. Urbanism, Fortification and Coercion Chapter Three. The Palaces of Noto. Ornament, Order, and Opportunism Chapter Four. The Palazzo Biscari, Catania. Lightness, Refinement and Distinction Chapter Five. The Palazzo Beneventano, Scicli. Trauma and Violence Chapter Six. The Palaces of Ragusa. Abundance, Famine and the Grotesque Conclusion. Architecture and the Naturalisation of Power Appendix. Glossary List of Illustrations Bibliography Index
£111.15
Amsterdam University Press Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture
Book SynopsisThe life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ‘decent’ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media, genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the historiography of Early Modern visual culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture: An Introduction (Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter, Alison G. Stewart) Taste, Lust, and the Male Body: Sexual Representations in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe (Alison B. Stewart) Private Viewings: The Frankfurt Context of Sebald Beham’s Die Nacht (Miriam Hall Kirch) To Show or Not to Show? Marcantonio Raimondi and the Representation of Female Pubic Hair (Mandy Richter) Treating Bodily Impurities: Skin, Art, and Medicine (Romana Sammern) Indecent Exposure and Honourable Uncovering in Renaissance Portraits of Women (Bette Talvacchia) Lust in Translation: Agency, Sexuality and Gender Configuration in Pauwels Franck’s Allegories of Love (Ricardo De Mambro Santos) ‘So This Guy Walks into a Forest … :’ Obscenity, Humor, Sex, and the Equine Body in Hans Baldung’s Horses in a Forest Woodcuts (1534) (Pia F. Cuneo) Indecent Creativity and the Tropes of Human Excreta (Fabian Jonietz) ‘It all turns to shit’ – The Land of Cockaigne in Sixteenth-Century German Woodcuts (Susanne Meurer) Noëls and Bodily Fluids: The Business of Low-Country Ceremonial Fountains (Catherine Emerson) Abstracts About the Authors Index
£107.35
Amsterdam University Press Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled
Book SynopsisThis book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the sonic, and back again. Each chapter unveils a situated moment in the long history of shellac – travelling from its early visual culture to Emile Berliner’s discovery of its auditory properties through to its recycling in contemporary art and design practices. Unforeseen correspondences between artefacts as diverse as mirrors, seals, gramophone discs and bombs are revealed. With its combinatory approach and commitment to material thinking, Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture insists on moments of contact, encounter, and transformation. The book notably addresses the colonial unconscious underpinning the early transnational recording industry, highlighting the multiple gestures and forms of labour entombed within the production of the 78rpm disc. Roy explores shellac as a concrete substance, as well as the malleable stuff of which stories, histories and modern imaginings were made – and unmade.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From material culture to the materials of culture Chapter 1. Sheen: Early stories and circulation of shellac Chapter 2. Crackle: Assembling the record Chapter 3. Mirrors: Phono-fetishism and intersensory visions Chapter 4. Detonations: Shellac at war Chapter 5. Shards: Waste, obsolescence, and contemporary remediations Conclusion: Sonic sculptures Index
£101.65
