Surface tensions: Surface, finish and the meaning of objects (Studies in Design) - Hardcover

Buch 19 von 60: Studies in Design and Material Culture
 
9780719087516: Surface tensions: Surface, finish and the meaning of objects (Studies in Design)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719087511 ISBN 13: 9780719087516
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The sixteen essays in this collection explore the surface as a site where complex forces meet, thorugh a wide range of subjects including avante garde fashion, the faking of antiques, postmodern architecture and design, and film costume.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Glenn Adamson is Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum Victoria Kelley is Reader in Design and Material Culture History at University for the Creative Arts, and teaches in the School of Fashion and Textile Design, Central Saint Saint Martins College of Art and Design

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Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than ‘deeper’ or more ‘substantive’ aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be theorized as membranes, protective shells, sensitive skins, even thicknesses in their own right. The surface is not so much a barrier to content as an opportunity for encounter.

Surface tensions includes sixteen essays that explore this theoretically uncharted terrain. The subjects range widely: domestic maintenance; avant-garde fashion; the faking of antiques; postmodern architecture and design; contemporary film costume. Of particular emphasis within the volume are textiles, which are among the most complex and culturally rich materializations of surface. As a whole, the book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new.

The contents will be of interest to any practitioner or scholar who considers the surface within their work, whether from the perspective of fine art, craft, design, history or anthropology.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719087511
ISBN 13 
9780719087516
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
264
Herausgeber
Adamson Glenn, Kelley Victoria
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