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Item Number: 126652
Title: Surface tensions : Surface, finish and the meaning of objects
Author: Adamson, Glenn ; Victoria Kelley (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719087516
Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 215pp. 32 b&w illus., 39 color plates. Contents: 1. Victoria Kelley: A superficial guide to the deeper meanings of surface ; 2. Lesley Millar: Surface and practice ; 3. Christine Guth: Layering: materiality, time and touch in Japanese lacquer ; 4. Manuel Charpy: Patina and the bourgeoisie: the appearance of the past in nineteenth-century Paris ; 5. Myriem Naji: A falsification of temporality: carpet distressing in Morocco ; 6. Margaret Ponsonby: Textiles and time: conservation and public response ; 7. Victor Buchli: Surface engagements at Astana ; 8. Mary Brooks: ‘No less dangerous to use than that of a Basilisk’: skin and seventeenth century English embroideries ; 9. Charlotte Nicklas: Colour, language and light in mid-nineteenth century women's fashion ; 10. Rebecca Arnold: Wifedressing: designing femininity in 1950s American fashion 11. Sarah Gilligan: Long coats, flowing fabrics: fashioning masculinity and desire in film and television ; 12. Ulrich Lehmann: Surface as material, material into surface: dialectic in C.C.P. ; 13. Alice Barnaby: Surface recognition: light and reflection in mid nineteenth-century drawing rooms ; 14. Stephen Knott: A theory of the paint-by-number surface ; 15. Steve Brown: The materiality of print ; 16. Glenn Adamson: Substance abuse: the postmodern surface.
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