Produktdetails
Titel: Textile Volume 4 Issue 2: The Journal of Cloth and Culture
Autor/en: Catherine Harper
ISBN: 1845205057
EAN: 9781845205058
Sprache: Englisch.
Herausgegeben von Doran Ross
BERG PUBL INC
1. Oktober 2006 - kartoniert - 128 Seiten
Beschreibung
Aims to bring together research in a distinctive academic forum. Representing a set of critical practices, this book provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice - situated within the contexts of material and visual culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
* Exotic Quilt Patterns and Pattern Names in the 1920s and 1930s Marin F. Hanson * Symbolic Consumption: Dressing for Real and Imagined Space Elaine Webster * Talk about Muslin: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Clair Hughes * Dialog Introduction Catherine Harper and Doran Ross * Dialog On the Outside, Looking In: The Iconography of the Outsider in Contemporary Fashion Nilgin Yusuf * Exhibition Review * Book Reviews
Portrait
Doran Ross is at UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. Catherine Harper is Head of the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton.
Pressestimmen
Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'Times Higher Education Supplement'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we d