Decorative arts

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies.

The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.

In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E.

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children.

'Detailed and impeccably researched.

The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder.

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900.

Simon Goldhill offers a fascinating new perspective on the material culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

Kaum ein kulturwissenschaftliches Thema wurde im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert umfassender untersucht als die Gabe.

Provides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning.

Shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion - Constructive-Reflective Studies Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book AwardWinner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pickWhile place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music?

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate.

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Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art.

Perinteisistä teollisuudenaloista eläneet paikat ovat uhanalaisia.

This Element studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.

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What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments?

Wellness has become synonymous with yoga, meditation, and other forms of self-care.

Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies.

The true story of the the misfits and mavericks who waged psychological warfare against the NazisSeptember, 1939.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning-in particular the political meaning-of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world.

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes.

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood.

Fashion is widely recognised as a site for social acceptance and rejection, and as a signifier of personal identity.

Digital Theology is a rapidly emerging field of academic research and gaining traction with scholars of Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate.

With 17 step-by-step projects, discover the art of paper quilling based around the four seasons.

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service.

Alexandra Stoddard continues her creative and insightful guidance by showing us how to make our homes a real expression of our true selves.

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management.

With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains.

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy.

In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the particular pattern of survival and collection by museums of garments of rural provenance.

This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted.

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study.

A bold reorientation of art history that bridges the divide between fine art and material culture through an examination of objects and their usesArt history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art while relegating others to the category of craft.

Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers.

The 'golden age' of children's literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and trade of commodities.

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period.