Clothes

Zusatztext "This combination of the personal with the imagined! expressed with verbal exuberance! is what drives Clothes.... Harvey makes the reader aware of all the important issues that clothes provoke - historical! theoretical! social! psychological! material! aesthetic." - Essays in Criticism Informationen zum Autor John Harvey is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge! UK! and Fellow of Emmanuel College! Cambridge. Zusammenfassung Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whether we may be good to know. This title considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements The incident in Stubbylee Park 1. Why can't we trust our clothes? 2. On trend! off trend: fashion and freedom 3. What shall I wear! who shall I be? 4. Clothes and the body within the clothes 5. Team colours 6. Couturiers and objets d'art Conclusion: dream clothes and future clothes Further reading References Index

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• Authors: HARVEY, John Harvey, John (University of California Davis USA) Harvey, Professor Department of Aeronautics John ( Harvey, Professor Department of Aeronautics John (University of California Davis USA) Harvey
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138158283
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15828-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: The Art of Living; The Art of Living
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics