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Fashion and Materialism

By Ulrich Lehmann

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781474407915, 9781474407922, 9781474407939
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10972473 bytes)
Series
Technicities
Pages
\252
Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2021-07-21 05:05:14

Description

A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles. Title Page Copyright Contents Series Editors’ Preface Introduction 1 Production into Consumption: Materialism in Fashion 2 Historical Materialism and Historicism: The Tiger’s Leap 3 Sartorial Semantics: Le Mot dans la mode 4 Markets for Modernity: Salons, Galleries and Fashion 5 Structuralism and Materialism: The Language of a Pur(e)Suit 6 Dialectics in C.C.P. 7 Primary Material Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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