Material Memories: Design and Evocation: v. 5 - Brossura

Kwint, Marius; Breward, Christopher

 
9781859732526: Material Memories: Design and Evocation: v. 5
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1859732526 ISBN 13: 9781859732526
Casa editrice: Berg Pub Ltd, 1999

Sinossi

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 shapinghuman 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 withinthe 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 howthe sense of the past and of history, far from being a 'radical illusion' as some post-modernists claim, has been a deeply felt reality.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Marius Kwint University of Oxford Christopher Breward Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies,London College of Fashion Jeremy Aynsley Joint Victoria & Albert / Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programme in History of Design

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Editore
Berg Pub Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1859732526
ISBN 13 
9781859732526
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
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9781859732472: Material Memories: Design and Evocation: v. 5

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ISBN 10:  185973247X ISBN 13:  9781859732472
Casa editrice: Berg Pub Ltd, 1999
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