Decorative arts

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "e;accidental wilderness"e; on Toronto's lakeshore.

Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up.

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c.

Applies the ''life history'' of objects approach to China''s prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state.

This Element shows that although news coverage of misinformation has increased, it has not eroded trust in traditional media.

Niche fashion magazines speak to a highly fashion literate readership and mix the codes of style magazines, glossy women's magazines and art catalogues.

Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism.

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture.

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This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

A fresh, unstuffy guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, including a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples.

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives.

In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K.

Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer satisfies the need in the interior design field for a source that teaches the aesthetic as well as the construction of residential furniture.

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The dominant form of Ottoman pictorial art until the eighteenth century, miniatures have traditionally been studied as reflecting the socio-historical contexts, aesthetic concerns and artistic tastes of the era within which they were produced.

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form.

Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today.

For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures.

Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography.

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Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin.

Challenge yourself to learn dozens of embroidery stitches and use them to create 30 simple projects that are ready to display.

The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts.

The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers.

The Religious Heritage Complex examines heritage-making of Christian-related legacies led by secular and clerical institutions.

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm.

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

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award

Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style.

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.

Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography.

In this fresh, unfamiliar, and sometimes surprising picture of modern Italy, history is refracted through the prism of the nation's consumer culture.

Jennifer Way's study The Politics of Vietnamese Craft uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of American cultural diplomacy, in which Vietnamese craft production was encouraged and shaped by the US State Department as an object for consumption by middle class America.

Veiling in Fashion enters the worlds of women who wear the hijab, both as an aspect of their religious observance and community belonging, and as a fashion statement, drawing upon global Islamic fashion history.

Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines.

'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson'A fascinating and disturbing investigation' Ian HislopThe behind-the-scenes story of a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate, exploring how a failed reality TV star turned accused organised criminal managed to become one of the most famous influencers in the world.

Many studies have concluded that the effects of early industrialization on traditional craftsworkers were largely negative.

Bringing together a wealth of primary sources and with contributions from leading experts, Dress History of Korea presents the most recent approaches to the interpretation of dress and fashion of Korea.

Precarious objects explores the traffic between design and activism by telling stories drawn from contemporary counter-precarity cases in Italy.

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.

Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm.

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain s oil-soaked past, present and future.