Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 260 pages)
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illustrations (some color)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857720929
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0857730126
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1848855842
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9780857720924
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9780857730121
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9781848855847
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9780755698356
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9780857720924
Content:
As a notion -- Why we collect -- The enlightenment button -- Gentlemen prefer buttons -- Commerce and cuteness -- War and grief -- Culture and creed -- Sex, love and buttons -- Arts and crafts -- Dash my buttons!
Content:
What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great aesthetic movements. It's Eurocentric, and is found all over the world. On the Button is an inventive and unusual exploration of the cultural history of the button, illustrated with a multiplicity of buttons in black and white and color. It tells tales of a huge variety of the button's forms and functions, its sometimes uncompromising glamour, its stronghold in fashion and literature, its place in the visual arts, its association with crime and death, and its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories, but On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight. It is illustrated with a multiplicity of buttons
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848855847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edwards, Nina On the button London ; New York: I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN 9781848855847
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755698356
