Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 257 p)
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ill
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781474215206
Series Statement:
Materializing culture
Content:
"This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not, however, to diminish the role of design in shaping human consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas, but rather, place crucial importance on the precise materials from which they are made, their social, economic and historic reasons for being, and the way that we interact with them through our senses. This book therefore studies the physical within the intellectual, directly testing the concept of material culture. With telling illustrations, and spanning the Renaissance to the present day, leading scholars converge across disciplines to explore the souvenir-value of jewellery, textiles, the home, the urban space, modernist design, photography, the museum and even the sunken wreck. Together they show how the sense of the past and of history, far from being a 'radical illusion' as some post-modernists claim, has been a deeply felt reality."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
pt. 1. The material and the mortal -- pt. 2. The home of memory -- pt. 3. Fabricating the past -- pt. 4. The ephemeral and the monumental -- pt. 5. The reproduction of memories.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781859732472
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781859732526
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Hardback version ISBN 9781859732472
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Paperback version ISBN 9781859732526
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474215206
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