Description
Book SynopsisThe sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume. The book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new. -- .
Table of ContentsGlenn Adamson and Victoria Kelley: Introduction
1. Victoria Kelley: A superficial guide to the deeper meanings of surface
2. Lesley Millar: Surface and practice
Time, work
3. Christine Guth: Layering: materiality, time and touch in Japanese lacquer
4. Manuel Charpy: Patina and the bourgeoisie: the appearance of the past in nineteenth-century Paris
5. Myriem Naji: A falsification of temporality: carpet distressing in Morocco
6. Margaret Ponsonby: Textiles and time: conservation and public response
7. Victor Buchli: Surface engagements at Astana
Textiles, skin
8. Mary Brooks: ‘No less dangerous to use than that of a Basilisk’: skin and seventeenth century English embroideries
9. Charlotte Nicklas: Colour, language and light in mid-nineteenth century women's fashion
10. Rebecca Arnold: Wifedressing: designing femininity in 1950s American fashion
11. Sarah Gilligan: Long coats, flowing fabrics: fashioning masculinity and desire in film and television
12. Ulrich Lehmann: Surface as material, material into surface: dialectic in C.C.P.
Depth, im/permeability
13. Alice Barnaby: Surface recognition: light and reflection in mid nineteenth-century drawing rooms
14. Stephen Knott: A theory of the paint-by-number surface
15. Steve Brown: The materiality of print
16. Glenn Adamson: Substance abuse: the postmodern surface
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