Living Retro

Author : Samantha Holland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137576187

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Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives by Samantha Holland Pdf

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these eras. As a result, it also identifies the tensions involved in these identities connected to a past that offered little gain for women and narrow gender roles for both women and men. Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives is based on original empirical international data about a group of people who wear vintage clothing all of the time and whose homes are styled entirely, or almost entirely, vintage. It aims to understand the meanings of vintage for them through their daily practices and accrued knowledge. Through interviews and direct observations of vintage events it also explores questions about the acquisition, display and curation of vintage clothes, homes and objects, about glamour and wardrobes, about the history of second-hand markets, and emotional durability and ideas about ghosts, hauntings and spectral remains. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of gender and women’s studies, fashion and design, fashion history, cultural studies, the body and embodiment.

Author : Andrew Weaving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 555744727X

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Living Retro by Andrew Weaving Pdf

As we reach the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, our passion for retro style shows no signs of fading. From the cerebral elegance of mid-century modern to the flamboyant opulence of the 1970s, retro interiors still have enormous appeal. In Living Retro, Andrew Weaving celebrates retro style in all its guises. It's a multi-faceted look embracing many different decorative styles, but it has at its heart a passion for vintage furniture and an understanding of the very best twentieth-century design. The interiors featured are varied in style, ranging from a slick, minimalist loft in London to an eclectic Parisian home full of found objects and a New York apartment that's a cocktail of color and pattern. These diverse interiors all have one thing in common--they put their own unique spin on retro style.

Author : Andrew Weaving
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 1849753652

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Living Retro by Andrew Weaving Pdf

Fabulous retro interiors, from Palm Springs to Paris. In this glorious book, Andrew Weaving visits 18 inspiring and varied locations that showcase the Living Retro style. From the elegant, spare simplicity of Scandinavian mid-century modern to the colorful, playful chic of Palm Beach in the 1960s, the carefully chosen locations around the globe illustrate the many facets of a look that ranges from sophisticated glamour to pared-down elegance.

Author : W. D. Mayberry
Publisher : W D Mayberry
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Retro Gaming 101 by W. D. Mayberry Pdf

In thousands and maybe even millions of homes, basements, and antics all around the world are boxes and boxes of old technology. Old phones that will never make another call, an old high school calculator with someone’s initials etched on it. While these old bits of tech are interesting, they are not what this book is about. This book is about that box containing the stuff your mum didn’t want to throw away when you moved out. The stuff you had spent hours, days, and months with. The once brand-new Nintendo Game Boy Advance and the twenty or so games you saved up and purchased. “It’s in the attic if you want it” your mum says, “I saw online those Game Boys and games are worth a bit now”. As you open the box you remember that you kept each game box and it’s all still there. Everything is in great condition. Mario Cart, Rayman Advance and even your favourite Pokémon Leaf Green Version. As you get home and set yourself up on the lounge with a coffee and your newly reclaimed box of goodies, you start to remember just how much fun this was. Thinking back to when you would lie on your bed for hours levelling up your newly evolved Pokémon and visiting Brock’s Gym. What a great time, even if your homework was left undone. In this book, I discuss Retro Gaming. What it is. Why it’s a thing and my journey and all the learning and fun I’ve had along the way.

Author : Joseph Baldi Acosta
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781491820568

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My Life in Metaphor by Joseph Baldi Acosta Pdf

Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one mans life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growing up a part of two distinct, rich cultures; training as a scientist and public health professional; work and residence in three foreign countries Brazil, Jordan and Ecuador; a love of nature; and, great respect for our country, but concern about a decline in our nations values the growing hostility and intolerance, technology as a substitute for direct human contact, and excessive violence. I hope you will enjoy my poetry, find it interesting and thought-provoking. Sincerely, Joseph Baldi Acosta

Author : Judi Ketteler
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781610605038

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Sew Retro by Judi Ketteler Pdf

Sewing never goes out of style, and today it is more popular than ever! Sew Retro offers twenty-five stylish, vintage-inspired sewing projects—beautiful bags, essential skirts, unique pillows, and more—that are a pleasure to sew, thanks to easy instructions, helpful diagrams, and a pocket of ten full-size patterns. This fun, inspirational book also uncovers sewing’s colorful history, from the introduction of the sewing machine to the modern DIY movement, and features interviews with today’s hottest fabric and pattern designers, including Amy Butler, Betz White, Barbara Brackman, Emma Brennan, Judie Rothermel, and Kathy Miller of Michael Miller Fabrics. Filled with gorgeous project photography and quirky vintage illustrations that bring the 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, and beyond to life, Sew Retro celebrates sewing yesterday and today. Learn more about Sew Retro and enjoy bonus projects and tutorials at www.sewretrothebook.com!

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780571271801

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Retromania by Simon Reynolds Pdf

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity - the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism - never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746005

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Tasting Paradise on Earth by Jin Feng Pdf

Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng’s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta—or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources—illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. Throughout Chinese history, food nostalgia has generated cultural currency for individuals. Feng examines literary treatments of Jiangnan foodways from late imperial and twentieth-century China, highlighting the role played by gender and tracing the contemporary metamorphosis of this cultural landscape, with its new platforms for food culture, such as television and the internet. As communities in Jiangnan refashion their regional heritage, culinary arts shine as markers of ethnic and social distinction.

Author : Leonard Unger,A. Walton Litz,Molly Weigel,Jay Parini,Lea Bechler
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684312492

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American Writers by Leonard Unger,A. Walton Litz,Molly Weigel,Jay Parini,Lea Bechler Pdf

The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.

Author : Anca Parvulescu
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226118413

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The Traffic in Women's Work by Anca Parvulescu Pdf

“Welcome to the European family!” When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impressive range of work by theorists from Giorgio Agamben to Judith Butler, she develops a critical lens through which to think about the transnational continuum of “women’s work.” Parvulescu revisits Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of kinship and its rearticulation by second-wave feminists, particularly Gayle Rubin, to show that kinship has traditionally been anchored in the traffic in women. Reading recent cinematic texts that help frame this, she reveals that in contemporary Europe, East European migrant women are exchanged to engage in labor customarily performed by wives within the institution of marriage. Tracing a pattern of what she calls Americanization, Parvulescu argues that these women thereby become responsible for the labor of reproduction. A fascinating cultural study as much about the consequences of the enlargement of the European Union as women’s mobility, The Traffic in Women’s Work questions the foundations of the notion of Europe today.

Author : Zsuzsa Bagoly,Daniel Behme,Johannes Kaesmacher,Sara Martinez De Lizarrondo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889714292

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Hemostasis and Stroke by Zsuzsa Bagoly,Daniel Behme,Johannes Kaesmacher,Sara Martinez De Lizarrondo Pdf

Author : C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442272934

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Folklife and Museums by C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann Pdf

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.

Author : Fireside pictorial annual
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555026304

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The Fireside annual [afterw.] pictorial annual [formerly Our own fireside] conducted by C. Bullock by Fireside pictorial annual Pdf

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Charles Scribners Sons/Reference
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0684312344

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American Writers by Jay Parini Pdf

Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field.

Author : Christine Brun
Publisher : Creators Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781942448068

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Small Spaces: Volume I by Christine Brun Pdf

Christine Brun Abdelnour is a nationally syndicated lifestyle columnist for Creators Syndicate. This is a collection of the very best of Small Spaces from 2014.