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Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works,(...)
Portable property: victorian culture on the move
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Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.
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In this fascinating and unique book, Alexandru Balasescu explores questions of Islamic dress, modernity and public space in Paris and Tehran. How are we to understand the exclusion of the Islamic dress from public space in France if, at the same time, trendy French women and wealthy Middle Eastern tourists shop for designer-label hijab, apparently accepting its conversion(...)
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Paris chic, Teheran thrills : aesthetic bodies, political subjects
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In this fascinating and unique book, Alexandru Balasescu explores questions of Islamic dress, modernity and public space in Paris and Tehran. How are we to understand the exclusion of the Islamic dress from public space in France if, at the same time, trendy French women and wealthy Middle Eastern tourists shop for designer-label hijab, apparently accepting its conversion into a (depoliticited, deracinated) commodity? And how are we to understand the creation of "designer label" Islamic dress, when fashionable women recast the meanings and practices associated with veiling, understood by Western observers to be the mark of their subordination to a religious regime, into couture?
Collections of nothing
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King, a professor at Santa Barbara, has spent decades collecting things that nobody else would want: food packages and labels (he has about eighteen thousand), illustrations snipped from old dictionaries (seven thousand), linings of "security" envelopes (eight hundred patterns), "the mute, meager, practically valueless object, like a sea-washed spigot, its mouth stoppered(...)
Collections of nothing
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King, a professor at Santa Barbara, has spent decades collecting things that nobody else would want: food packages and labels (he has about eighteen thousand), illustrations snipped from old dictionaries (seven thousand), linings of "security" envelopes (eight hundred patterns), "the mute, meager, practically valueless object, like a sea-washed spigot, its mouth stoppered by a stone." What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis, extraordinary is the way King weaves his autobiography into the account of his collection, deftly demonstrating that the two stories are essentially one. "I lost and found myself in remote topical aisles of scholarship-wreck," he says of his hours in Yale’s library, reading the most obscure books he could find. His hard-won self-awareness gives his disclosures an intensity that will likely resonate with all readers, even those whose collections of nothing contain nothing at all.
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The design culture reader
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Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems). The Design Culture Reader brings(...)
The design culture reader
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Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems). The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas - especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences of modern life. Particular essays focus on topics such as design and the senses, design and war and design and technology, while the editor's introduction to the collection provides a compelling argument for situating design studies at the very forefront of contemporary thought.
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Occasions d'extase: lettres
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Poète, écrivain, décorateur et pionnier du socialisme en Grande-Bretagne, William Morris (1834-1896) eut une vie riche et à multiples facettes. Il est l'auteur, outre ses nombreux romans, poèmes et conférences, d'une abondante correspondance révélant un personnage complexe et attachant, tout à la fois enthousiaste, révolté, mais aussi parfois dépressif, et en toutes(...)
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Poète, écrivain, décorateur et pionnier du socialisme en Grande-Bretagne, William Morris (1834-1896) eut une vie riche et à multiples facettes. Il est l'auteur, outre ses nombreux romans, poèmes et conférences, d'une abondante correspondance révélant un personnage complexe et attachant, tout à la fois enthousiaste, révolté, mais aussi parfois dépressif, et en toutes circonstances généreux envers ses proches et les causes qu'il défendait. Ce choix de lettres retrace les différentes étapes de sa vie et de sa carrière, de sa jeunesse romantique en passant par ses nombreuses passions pour les arts, la poésie, l'architecture, la nature et les voyages, jusqu'à son engagement politique sans concessions dans les dernières années de sa vie.
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Art, bien-être et richesse
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Poète, écrivain, décorateur et pionnier du socialisme britannique, William Morris (1834-1896) exècre la société de son temps. Il s’insurge contre les effets dévastateurs de la mécanisation et de la recherche du profit sur les conditions de travail et la vie des ouvriers. La richesse produite par le système économique non seulement engendre de la laideur, mais se résume(...)
Art, bien-être et richesse
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Poète, écrivain, décorateur et pionnier du socialisme britannique, William Morris (1834-1896) exècre la société de son temps. Il s’insurge contre les effets dévastateurs de la mécanisation et de la recherche du profit sur les conditions de travail et la vie des ouvriers. La richesse produite par le système économique non seulement engendre de la laideur, mais se résume aussi à une forme de domination car injustement partagée ; elle s’oppose à la prospérité, ce bien-être matériel et moral de tous les individus auquel contribue l’art.
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"Travail utile, fatigue inutile" est un texte fondamental. À l’heure des bullshit jobs, ce texte prémonitoire fait figure de manifeste, de bréviaire, alors que le modèle économique dévastateur mis en place depuis un demi-siècle semble parvenu en bout de course. La révolution industrielle, la démesure de la production dans le capitalisme émergent, nourri de la pensée(...)
Travail utile, fatigue inutile
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"Travail utile, fatigue inutile" est un texte fondamental. À l’heure des bullshit jobs, ce texte prémonitoire fait figure de manifeste, de bréviaire, alors que le modèle économique dévastateur mis en place depuis un demi-siècle semble parvenu en bout de course. La révolution industrielle, la démesure de la production dans le capitalisme émergent, nourri de la pensée libérale utilitariste, ont consacré l’idée d’un travail de plus en plus aliénant, qui a rompu avec le réel, le monde et la nature.
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''Design Against Design'' argues for the urgent necessity of critical engagement and political resistance through graphic practice. It draws on insights from the practice of LOKI, a small graphic design studio committed to working with social movements towards radical political change. With conversational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging(...)
Design against design: Cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice
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''Design Against Design'' argues for the urgent necessity of critical engagement and political resistance through graphic practice. It draws on insights from the practice of LOKI, a small graphic design studio committed to working with social movements towards radical political change. With conversational interviews, personal and critical essays, and a wide-ranging selection of graphic works, this book unravels the real-world relationships, motivations and contradictions involved in a socially engaged design practice.
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The goal of this collaborative, enthusiastic textbook on design history is to create a resource offering a diverse, inclusive view of graphic design history, specifically articulated through the student voice. Design History Reader was led by Kristen Coogan, Associate Professor of Art and Graphic Design at Boston University, who applies the department’s pluralistic(...)
Design history reader: An emerging vision for a new narrative
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The goal of this collaborative, enthusiastic textbook on design history is to create a resource offering a diverse, inclusive view of graphic design history, specifically articulated through the student voice. Design History Reader was led by Kristen Coogan, Associate Professor of Art and Graphic Design at Boston University, who applies the department’s pluralistic approach to the topic. The case studies featured in this book are real-life examples from her students that demonstrate the practical, ubiquitous applications of design theory. They began as a curricular revision and evolved into a new form of design history pedagogy. Already a part of Boston University’s graphic design curriculum, this student-focused reader is an excellent choice for course adoption, or for the bookshelf of an independent aspiring designer.
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Vers une écologie critique
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Publié en 1970 et rapidement traduit en plusieurs langues, cet ouvrage constitue un jalon majeur dans l'histoire du design. Il pose les fondements d'une réflexion critique et engagée, ouverte à une perspective écologique, face aux dérives des régressions utopiques ou du productivisme exacerbé. Tomás Maldonado, figure pionnière de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, défend, à(...)
Vers une écologie critique
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Publié en 1970 et rapidement traduit en plusieurs langues, cet ouvrage constitue un jalon majeur dans l'histoire du design. Il pose les fondements d'une réflexion critique et engagée, ouverte à une perspective écologique, face aux dérives des régressions utopiques ou du productivisme exacerbé. Tomás Maldonado, figure pionnière de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, défend, à l'intersection des disciplines et des cultures, l'idée que l'espoir doit imprégner la manière dont le design appréhende le monde. Ce livre en constitue le manifeste.
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