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Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 Justine De Young 9781788314480
Booksplease Price: $40.25Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often... -
Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology by Judith K. Brodsky
Booksplease Price: $48.88In Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit, Judith K. Brodsky makes a ground-breaking intellectual leap by connecting feminist art theory with the rise of digital art. Technology has commonly been... -
Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History Through the Essay Film by Dr Anna Ulrikke Andersen
Booksplease Price: $148.71This book examines the 'window' in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 - 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines... -
Memories of Dress: Recollections of Material Identities by Alison Slater
Booksplease Price: $127.44Memories of clothing feature prominently in auto/biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny as other sources. Memories of Dress redresses this... -
Practice-based Design Research by Laurene Vaughan
Booksplease Price: $39.23Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice. The contributors address a range of models and approaches to practice-based... -
Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century Margaret Birney Vickery (University of Massachussetts Amherst, USA) 9781350216310
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.35Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the 17th century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe... -
Fashion, History, Museums: Inventing the Display of Dress Julia Petrov (Royal Alberta Museum, Canada) 9781350229662
Booksplease Price: $46.80This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. "A remarkable resource... -
Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera: Perspectives in a Global World by Dr. Ruth E. Iskin
Booksplease Price: $40.78Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What... -
Craft on Demand: The New Politics of the Handmade by Anthea Black
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.35Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically... -
Theodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France by Simon Kelly
Booksplease Price: $141.04The nineteenth century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines the relationship between the avant-garde Barbizon... -
Grids for Graphic Designers by Gavin Ambrose
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.40Fully updated, the third edition of Grids for Graphic Designers explores this important tool which is part of every designer's practice- whether it involves digital or print-based media. With over... -
House of Fashion: Haute Couture and the Modern Interior by Jess Berry
Booksplease Price: $42.70Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account... -
Menswear Revolution: The Transformation of Contemporary Men's Fashion by Jay McCauley Bowstead
Booksplease Price: $44.07In recent years, menswear has moved decisively center stage. Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men's fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its... -
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion by Dr. Freya Gowrley
Booksplease Price: $125.09Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this... -
Illustration Research Methods by Rachel Gannon
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.18**Shortlisted for the 2021 British Book Design and Production Awards for the Best Jacket / Cover Design** For years illustration has lacked a strong critical history in which to frame it, with... -
Time in Fashion by Caroline Evans
Booksplease Price: $50.34Few phenomena embody the notion of time as well as fashion. Fast-moving and rooted in the 'now', it's constantly creating its own past through the process of rapid style change. Uniquely poised... -
The Hidden History of the Smock Frock by Alison Toplis
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.57Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand-crafted and held up as one of the only items of... -
Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalization of Art Dr Diane V. Silverthorne (University of the Arts, London, UK) 9781501376528
Booksplease Price: $41.77Opening with an account of print portraiture facilitating Franz Liszt's celebrity status and concluding with Riot Grrrl's noisy politics of feminism and performance, this interdisciplinary anthology... -
Architecture and Ugliness: Anti-Aesthetics and the Ugly in Postmodern Architecture Wouter Van Acker (Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 9781350068230
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $136.24Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This... -
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms by Ellen K. Levy
Booksplease Price: $39.00Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science... -
Creating a Successful Graphic Design Portfolio by Irina Lee
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.91Being able to present yourself and your work in the best way possible is a necessary skill that all new designers must master before embarking on a career--be it freelance or working within a design... -
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Booksplease Price: $144.03Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his... -
Knitwear: An Introduction to Contemporary Design by Juliana Sissons
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $26.84Fully revised and updated, this new second edition of Knitwear provides an invaluable introduction to the use of knitwear in fashion design. The book delves into the characteristics and behavior of... -
The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference by Gilane Tawadros
Booksplease Price: $37.54Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon examines artistic practice through an international lens. This vibrant collection of essays and writings - produced in... -
Atari Design: Impressions on Coin-Operated Video Game Machines by Prof Raiford Guins
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.74Drawing from deep archival research and extensive interviews, Atari Design is a rich, historical study of how Atari's industrial and graphic designers contributed to the development of the video game... -
The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent by Mahmoud Keshavarz
Booksplease Price: $31.77The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'... -
The Handbook of Visual Culture by Ian Heywood
Booksplease Price: $53.14Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of... -
Key Modern Architects: 50 Short Histories of Modern Architecture by Andrew Higgott
Booksplease Price: $37.24Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects,... -
Fashion Remains: Rethinking Ephemera in the Archive by Professor Marco Pecorari
Booksplease Price: $47.29Fashion ephemera-from catalogues and invitations to press releases-have long been overlooked by the fashion industry and fashion academics. Fashion Remains redresses the balance, putting these... -
The Fashion Reader by Linda Welters
Booksplease Price: $58.97In The Fashion Reader, Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun have selected 76 influential articles to offer insight into the critical theories and conversations that surround this huge international... -
Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life Judy Attfield 9781350070714
Booksplease Price: $37.60What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total... -
Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra by Kate Strasdin
Booksplease Price: $40.25Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the... -
A History of the Paper Pattern Industry: The Home Dressmaking Fashion Revolution by Joy Spanabel Emery
Booksplease Price: $49.81Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of... -
Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siecle by Dr. Lynne M. Swarts
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.07Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist... -
Hats by Clair Hughes
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.00Bowlers, Bergeres, berets and beyond, this is the ultimate guide to hats through history. From the lavish fashion hats of Marie Antoinette's court to the experimental millinery of Stephen Jones and... -
Postcards from the Trenches by Irene Guenther
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.44German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the... -
Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy Tony Fry (University of Tasmania, Australia) 9781350089532
Booksplease Price: $38.58"Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world - including design -... -
Menswear by John Hopkins
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.46Whether it's a military inspired trench coat or a Savile Row tailored suit, menswear design increasingly demands originality, innovation and above all, choice. Menswear, 2nd edition explores the... -
Berlin Contemporary: Architecture and Politics After 1990 by Professor Julia Walker
Booksplease Price: $150.34For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most... -
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion by Alison Gwilt
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $25.76Packed with examples from groundbreaking designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Edun and People Tree, A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion is a much-needed overview of current...