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Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods - both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists - all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched. Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including liter...

The Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of £5, 199, 822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did ...

Humanitarian architecture - or the 'architecture of aid' - has seen phenomenal growth worldwide over the last decade, as architects have responded to an increasingly urgent need to connect socially responsible design to ongoing efforts in humanitarian aid. Whether providing ground-breaking designs for post-disaster shelter, or as part of wider economic development programmes (for example school-building in the developing world) - it is clear t...

Humanitarian architecture - or the 'architecture of aid' - has seen phenomenal growth worldwide over the last decade, as architects have responded to an increasingly urgent need to connect socially responsible design to ongoing efforts in humanitarian aid. Whether providing ground-breaking designs for post-disaster shelter, or as part of wider economic development programmes (for example school-building in the developing world) - it is clear t...

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common? Prized, possessed and modelled, these objects highlight the deep connections we share with cultural objects. Establishing new connections between people and objects via artistic media and material culture, this highly interdisciplinary volume brings together both established and emerging scholars in the fields of art ...

Modernist painter, social realist, Holocaust survivor, and student of the Parisian Avant Garde: Jewish-Polish artist Henryk Streng was extraordinary for his aesthetic innovation during the two major traumas of 20th-century European history, the Holocaust and Stalinism. Yet the work of this radical artist is still barely known. In this book, inspired by the 2021 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Piotr Slodkowski demonstrates tha...

Chanel suits, Louis Vuitton bags and Omega watches are now objects that embody a globalized material culture. Over the past 30 years, the luxury goods industry has undergone a tremendous expansion around the world. However, it remains largely dominated by European companies, ranging from diversified conglomerates such as LVMH and Richemont to independent companies such as the Italian fashion houses Armani and Ermenegildo Zegna, and industrial ...

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and Int...

Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to archit...

The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (second edition) offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture. The book contains five sections, which together encapsulate the principle ideas, skills and knowledge that are employed in effective interior architecture and design. Areas of study include space and form, site and function, materials and te...

Philosophical Perspectives on Fashion places philosophical approaches at the heart of contemporary fashion studies. Considering the mutual relationships between aesthetics, modern society and culture, fashion and the fine arts, and the way these relationships have influenced and shaped our views on identity and taste, this ground-breaking book also explores the various intellectual and cultural movements that inform how people dress. In the ...

Follows 5 companies who have successfully implemented sustainable practices that are rooted in their place of origin.

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Fashion may be widely known as the 'child of capitalism', but to fully grasp how and why, we must return to the birth of the fashion economy in the 19th century. Using Karl Marx's discussion of the frock coat - a bourgeois menswear staple - as a focal point, this book examines the philosophies of clothing that began taking shape in art, literature and politics in capitalist 19th-century Europe and America. Telling the story of fashion and capi...

Fashion may be widely known as the 'child of capitalism', but to fully grasp how and why, we must return to the birth of the fashion economy in the 19th century. Using Karl Marx's discussion of the frock coat - a bourgeois menswear staple - as a focal point, this book examines the philosophies of clothing that began taking shape in art, literature and politics in capitalist 19th-century Europe and America. Telling the story of fashion and capi...

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