Fashion and Print Culture
Title | Fashion and Print Culture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2013 |
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment
Title | A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Susan J. Vincent |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0857857614 |
A cultural history of dress and fashion' presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2,500 years of dress and fashion. Volume 1: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD), edited by Mary Harlow; Volume 2: The Medieval Age (800-1450), edited by Sarah-Grace Heller; Volume 3: The Renaissance (1450-1650), edited by Elizabeth Currie; Volume 4: The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800), edited by Peter McNeil; Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920), edited by Denise Amy Baxter; Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000+), edited by Alexandra Palmer. Each volume discusses the same key themes in its chapters: 1. Textiles 2. Production and Distribution 3. The Body 4. Belief 5. Gender and Sexuality 6. Status 7. Ethnicity 8. Visual Representations 9. Literary Representations. This structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on dress and fashion through history.
Common Threads
Title | Common Threads PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Dwyer-McNulty |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 146961409X |
Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939
Title | Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Clay |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 2018-03-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1474412556 |
Explores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Title | Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s PDF eBook |
Author | Forster Laurel Forster |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | Authorship |
ISBN | 147446999X |
Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodForegrounds the diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matterExamines changes and continuities as women's magazines have moved into digital formatsHighlights the important cultural and political contexts of women's periodicals including the Women's Liberation Movement and SocialismExplores the significance of women as publishers, printers and editorsWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera, novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine formats. The range of essays indicates both the history of publishing for women and the diversity of readers and audiences over the mid-late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century in Britain. The collection reflects in detail the important ways in magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged, or informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including interview, textual analysis and industry commentary are employed in order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of postwar print media may be understood.
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
Title | Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Benito Rial Costas |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9004235744 |
This volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the 15th and 16th centuries through a number of specific case studies.
Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
Title | Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807834874 |
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America