A Well Fashioned Image

Author : Elizabeth Rodini,Elissa Weaver,David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Chicago David & Alfred
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0935573356

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A Well-fashioned Image by Elizabeth Rodini,Elissa Weaver,David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Pdf

Fashion—the question of what to wear and how to wear it—is a centuries-old obsession. Beyond superficial concerns with personal appearance, the history of dress points to deep preoccupations surrounding the social order, national identity, and moral decency. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (running from October 23, 2001 through April 28, 2002), A Well-Fashioned Image investigates clothing and the representation of clothing from these various perspectives. This richly illustrated catalogue, the fourth in a series sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, features an introduction by co-curators Elizabeth Rodini, the Smart Museum's Mellon Projects Curator, and Professor Elissa B. Weaver of the University of Chicago's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, which is followed by essays addressing the topic from a variety of perspectives. Also included are a substantial bibliography on the topic of costume in art and an exhibition checklist.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803295919

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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940 by Gregory D. Smithers Pdf

Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135856953

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Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s by Gregory D. Smithers Pdf

This book combines transnational history with the comparative analysis of racial formation and reproductive sexuality in the settler colonial spaces of the United States and British Australia. Specifically, the book places "whiteness," and the changing definition of what it meant to be white in nineteenth-century America and Australia, at the center of our historical understanding of racial and sexual identities. In both the United States and Australia, "whiteness" was defined in opposition to the imagined cultural and biological inferiority of the "Indian," "Negro," and "Aboriginal savage." Moreover, Euro-Americans and Euro-Australians shared a common belief that "whiteness" was synonymous with the extension of settler colonial civilization. Despite this, two very different understandings of "whiteness" emerged in the nineteenth century. The book therefore asks why these different racial understandings of "whiteness" – and the quest to create culturally and racially homogeneous settler civilizations – developed in the United States and Australia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111406653

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The Smart Museum of Art Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Dahlgren
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789188909107

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Fashioned in the North by Anna Dahlgren Pdf

This edited volume showcases new examples - previously untold stories of images, photographers, publications, and institutions - partly unknown outside the Nordic countries. The authors examine the reasons for and implications of this underexposure, taking on a photographic metaphor. While simultaneously challenging previously taken-for-granted ideas of the center and periphery in this field, the book also widens the study of fashion photography. Notably, the hybridity of approaches may enrich future studies of fashion photography. In Fashioned in the North, fashion photography is viewed as a transnational phenomenon and a material object, as well as a medium that is part of a media system and a result of archival systems and history writings. Furthermore, the book displays how studies of fashion photography can be so much more than stories of a few names and iconic images or studies of individual and periodic style. Indeed, the study of fashion photography may be a prism through which we can uncover cultural, social, economic, and ideological aspects of society at present and in the past.

Author : Juliet Cummins,David Burchell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754657817

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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by Juliet Cummins,David Burchell Pdf

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the contributions of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the development of modern Western thought.

Author : Joanne Finkelstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780745666266

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The Fashioned Self by Joanne Finkelstein Pdf

This book examines the nature of the self and self-identity in the modern age, and the way in which they have been moulded through the alteration of bodily appearance, exemplified fashions, facelifts and diets. The idea that an individual's character is revealed through physical appearance is, Finkelstein argues, deeply embedded in Western culture. And since fashions and cosmetics are closely linked to sexual difference, the author concentrates on aspects of gender identity, suggesting that the female and male identity are differentiated through opposed experiences of the body.

Author : G. Beegan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230589926

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The Mass Image by G. Beegan Pdf

The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of the emerging popular culture of late Victorian London. It demonstrates how photomechanical reproduction allowed the illustrated press to envisage modern life on a much more intense scale than ever before.

Author : Sébastien Thomassey,Xianyi Zeng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811300806

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Artificial Intelligence for Fashion Industry in the Big Data Era by Sébastien Thomassey,Xianyi Zeng Pdf

This book provides an overview of current issues and challenges in the fashion industry and an update on data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and their potential implementation in response to those challenges. Each chapter starts off with an example of a data-driven AI technique on a particular sector of the fashion industry (design, manufacturing, supply or retailing), before moving on to illustrate its implementation in a real-world application

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,David Konstan,Bruce Duncan MacQueen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501503986

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Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,David Konstan,Bruce Duncan MacQueen Pdf

The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss “mapping the world in the novels.” The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.

Author : Harold Davis
Publisher : Amphoto Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780823085866

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Creating HDR Photos by Harold Davis Pdf

Since the days of the first photographs, artists have used various techniques to extend the range of lights and darks in their photos. Photographic masters such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston spent countless hours burning and dodging their prints to create images with extended dynamic range. With the advent of digital photography, new horizons in extending dynamic range are possible. HDR techniques now make it easy to extend the dynamic range of an image well beyond the capability of the human eye. In Creating HDR Photos, bestselling author Harold Davis covers the complete HDR workflow, from choosing the subjects that work best for HDR through processing RAW files to unlock the dynamic power of HDR. You’ll learn how to photograph multiple exposures and blend them into a single HDR image using various software programs. Best of all, you will find out how to control the style of your HDR images, from subtle to hyper-real, using a range of photographic and post-processing techniques. Packed with stunning image examples, Creating HDR Photos brings this essential digital technique within every photographer’s grasp.

Author : Jim Cullen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444351408

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Essaying the Past by Jim Cullen Pdf

The second edition of Essaying the Past features a variety of updates and enhancements to further its standing as an indispensible resource to all aspects of researching and writing historical essays. Includes expert advice on writing about history, conducting good research, and learning how to think analytically Includes a new chapter addressing common situations that represent steps in the transition from a rough first draft to a final version Covers important topics such as framing questions, developing a strong introduction and topic sentences, choosing good evidence, and the crucial role of revision Includes an annotated case study that takes the reader through one student’s process of writing an essay, illustrating how strategies in the text can be successfully implemented New edition features updates to cultural references, a newly written preface, and reorganized table of contents

Author : Deborah Steiner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691094888

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Images in Mind by Deborah Steiner Pdf

In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.

Author : Robert Maniura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351553339

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Presence by Robert Maniura Pdf

In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a toppled bronze statue of Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the defamation of images imply that the persons represented were regarded by their detractors as in some way 'present' in the images? Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects reconsiders the notion of 'presence' in objects. The first book to address the issue directly, it contains a series of case studies covering a broad geographical and chronological range from ancient Greece and the Incas to industrial America and contemporary India, as well as examples from the canon of western European art. The studies reveal the widespread evidence for this striking form of response and allow readers to see how 'presence' is evoked and either embraced or repressed in differing historical and cultural contexts. Featuring a variety of disciplines and approaches, the book will be of interest to students of art history, art theory, visual culture, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

Author : Russell J. Levenson
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640652729

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Bits of Heaven by Russell J. Levenson Pdf

Short, accessible meditations and photography to guide you through the season Author Russ Levenson invites readers to slow down, “toward that stillness that, in a particular way, reveals not only the nature of God but our own nature and God’s calling to us.” These and other thoughtful insights seem most appropriate during the summer season. Bits of Heaven provides devotional readings that are companions to the sunlight, opportunities for relaxation, and growth that surround us during the summer. Forty meditations, reflections for contemplation, and prayers fill this volume designed to accompany and encourage readers throughout the season. This thoughtful book is part of a series by this well-known author.