Produktdetails
Titel: Textile Volume 6 Issue 1: The Journal of Cloth and Culture
ISBN: 1845208412
EAN: 9781845208417
First.
Sprache: Englisch.
Herausgegeben von Catherine Harper, Doran Ross
BERG PUBL INC
1. Mai 2008 - kartoniert - 105 Seiten
Beschreibung
Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. Representing a set of critical practices, this work 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 - all situated within the contexts of material and visual culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
DIALOG SKIVVIES WITH THE GIVVIES: VINTAGE AMERICAN UNDERWEAR ADS FEATURE SEXUAL INNUENDO BETWEEN 'BOYS' IN THE BRANDS BRUCE H. JOFFE IN-BETWEEN STAGE LIFE AND EVERYDAY LIFE: CURTAINS AND THEIR PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS ACALYA ALLMER TEXTILE SEMANTICS: CONSIDERING A COMMUNICATION-BASED READING OF TEXTILES. SONJA ANDREW
Portrait
Catherine Harper, Head of the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton. Doran Ross, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles.
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'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 dare to move