A Fashion for Extravagance
Author | : Sara Bowman |
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Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Sara Bowman |
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Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Sara Bowman |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
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Examines the fabrics and clothing created by French art deco designers and artists during the 1910s and 1920s.
Author | : Lady Guendolen Ramsden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
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Author | : Sara Bowman |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Cristina Giorcelli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : DESIGN |
ISBN | : 9781452944784 |
This four-volume English-language series extracts more than forty of the best essays included in the ongoing editions Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and published since 1995 by Edizioni Associate (volumes 1/3) and Ila Palma Press (volumes 4/12) of Rome, Italy. Habits of Being augments these Italian-published essays with newly commissioned ones and with examples of work by contemporary artists who explore the interface between text and textile. The result of almost two decades of research by international teams of scholars from Algeria, France, Hungary, Italy, and the United States, the series focuses on the multiple forms and meanings attached to various articles of clothing in literature, film, performance, art, and other cultural arenas as well as on the social, economic, and semiotic connotations of clothing. Bringing together the work of literary and film critics, art and fashion historians, semioticians, sociologists, historians, and ethnographers, as well as psychoanalysts, artists, and fashion designers, these books offer an English-speaking audience a rare glimpse of the important studies being published in Italy, that most modish of nations.
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Electricity |
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Author | : Emanuela Zanda |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472519698 |
From the Old Testament to Elizabethan England, luxury has been morally condemned. In Rome, sumptuary laws (laws controlling consumption) seemed the only weapon to defeat 'hydra-like luxury', the terrible monster that was weakening even the strongest citizens. The first Roman sumptuary law, the Lex Appia, declared that no woman could possess more than a half ounce of gold, wear a dress of different colours, or ride in a carriage in any city unless for a public ceremony. Laws listed how many different colours could be worn by members of different social classes: peasants could wear one colour, soldiers in the army could wear two, army officers could wear three, and members of the royal family could wear seven. A law passed by Emperor Aurelian stated that men couldn't wear shoes that were red, yellow, green, or white, and that only the emperor and his sons could wear red or purple shoes. A variety of other laws limited how much people could spend on parties and how many people they could invite. In this book, Emanuela Zanda explores the purposes behind the enactment of such legislation in Rome during the Republic. She engages with the historical-literary polemic against luxury and focuses on government intervention in matters of extravagance by taking into consideration not only sumptuary laws but also other measures that dealt with self-indulgence. She addresses and answers a number of questions about what exactly the ruling class was trying to achieve, about its real motivations, and about the significance of the ideological discourse surrounding the enactment of these laws.
Author | : Charles Sorel |
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Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1654 |
Genre | : Translations |
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Author | : National Association for the Advancement of Art and Its Application to Industry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Simon Fairlie |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1603583254 |
Meat: A Benign Extravagance is a groundbreaking exploration of the difficult environmental, ethical and health issues surrounding the human consumption of animals. Garnering huge praise in the UK, this is a book that answers the question: should we be farming animals, or not? Not a simple answer, but one that takes all views on meat eating into account. It lays out in detail the reasons why we must indeed decrease the amount of meat we eat, both for the planet and for ourselves, and yet explores how different forms of agriculture--including livestock--shape our landscape and culture. At the heart of this book, Simon Fairlie argues that society needs to re-orient itself back to the land, both physically and spiritually, and explains why an agriculture that can most readily achieve this is one that includes a measure of livestock farming. It is a well-researched look at agricultural and environmental theory from a fabulous writer and a farmer, and is sure to take off where other books on vegetarianism and veganism have fallen short in their global scope.