The Vulgar

Author : Jane Alison,Sinéad McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fashion
ISBN : 3960980302

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The Vulgar by Jane Alison,Sinéad McCarthy Pdf

Potent, provocative and sometimes shocking, the word vulgar conjures up strong images, ideas and feelings in us all. The Vulgar is the first exhibition to explore the inherently challenging but utterly compelling territory of taste in fashion, from the renaissance through to contemporary design.Examining the constantly evolving notion of vulgarity in fashion whilst revelling in its excesses, you are invited to think again about exactly what makes something vulgar and why it is such a sensitive and contested term.Drawn from major public and private collections worldwide, this richly illustrated volume showcases over 120 stunning objects, ranging from historical costumes to couture and ready-to-wear looks.With contributions from leading contemporary designers including Chlo�, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Miuccia Prada, Elsa Schiaparelli, Philip Treacy, Viktor & Rolf, Louis Vuitton and Vivienne Westwood.This book contains fascinating literary definitions by curator Judith Clark (Professor of Fashion and Museology, University of the Arts, London), and psychoanalyst and writer Adam Philips, alongside interviews with several leading contemporary designers.Taking the definitions as a starting point, more than 200 stunning images are also included - weaving together historic dress, haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion, textile ornamentation, manuscripts and photography.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined at the Barbican Centre, London (13 October 2016 - 15 February 2017).

Author : Captain Francis Grose
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781797203430

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A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Captain Francis Grose Pdf

A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is a profane guide to the slang from the backstreets and taverns of 18th-century London. This slang dictionary gathers the most amusing and useful terms from English history and helpfully presents them to be used in the conversations of our modern day. Originally published in 1785, the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue was one of the first lexicons of English slang, compiled by a militia captain who collected the terms he overheard on his late-night excursions to London's slums, dockyards, and taverns. Now the legacy lives on in this colorful pocket dictionary. • Learn the origin of phrases like "birthday suit" and discover slang lost to time. • An unexpected marriage of lowbrow humor and highbrow wit Discover long lost antique slang and curse words and learn how to incorporate them into modern conversation. A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is perfect for enlivening contemporary conversation with historical phrases; it includes a topical list of words for money, drunkenness, the amorous congress, male and female naughty bits, and so on. • A funny book for wordplay, language, swearing, and insult fans, as well as fans of British humor and culture • Perfect for those who loved How to Speak Brit: The Quintessential Guide to the King's English, Cockney Slang, and Other Flummoxing British Phrases by Christopher J. Moore; Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang by Jonathan Bernstein; and The Official Dictionary of Sarcasm by James Napoli

Author : Heather Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523714719

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The Vulgar Offensive Very Adult Coloring Book by Heather Land Pdf

Are you easily offended? Then exit immediately! This book is full of the filthiest swear words imaginable. If you curse like a sailor and don't give two f*cks about what people think, this book is perfect for you! The book has 30 different pages to cover. The pages are single sided so you can easily use markers and gel pens.

Author : Ian Brodie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781626744059

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A Vulgar Art by Ian Brodie Pdf

In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline’s central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize—“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial” or “morality”—and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience. Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian’s own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and socio-cultural distances between the performer and the audience.

Author : Jack Lowery
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 164503660X

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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery Pdf

Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize The story of art collective Gran Fury--which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda--offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury's art and activism from iconic images like the "Kissing Doesn't Kill" poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP's strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.

Author : Jonathon Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199398164

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The Vulgar Tongue by Jonathon Green Pdf

Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets and integrate itself so seamlessly with "standard English?" The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century. The aim is not to record the history of the over 125,000 English words that make up the lexis. Rather, the author focuses on the common, often profane themes that run through the word-list--crime, sex, bodily parts and functions, insults, and drink and drugs--and their scope and function throughout the various cultures and overlapping subcultures of English language history, from the sporting world to the university campus to ethnic communities. In tracing its development and trajectory throughout the English-speaking world, Jonathon Green offers an impassioned defence for its vitality, showing how slang has grown into a modern, versatile vocabulary that has nevertheless established its own role in contemporary English. Drawing on thirty years' worth of research, The Vulgar Tongue is a celebration of the words and phrases of an overlooked aspect of human language and interaction.

Author : Jim Opalka
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633829770

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The Vulgar Vulture by Jim Opalka Pdf

It is April 9, 1945. A B-26 Marauder, the Vulgar Vulture, encounters two ME-262s over Regensburg, Germany. Tracers light the clear, moonlit sky as the crew feels the heat and percussion of ballistic impact. One crewmember stumbles out of the forward-hinged upward-opening hatch. The Vulture, a 37,000-pound medium bomber enters an inverted spin. The sole survivor watches his beloved crew and aircraft crash and burn. His wife receives a Western Union Telegram announcing his “Missing in Action” status. His life, however, is far from over. An English tank commander, two sons, a daughter and devoted wife have other plans. And then there is of course the prison camp, treasure, the quest, and the remnants of the Third Reich to deal with.

Author : Colin MacCabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718794

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The Eloquence of the Vulgar by Colin MacCabe Pdf

In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life. A radical argument emerges from the book's diverse concerns. Cinema and television - the new and democratic art forms of the twentieth century - demand a fundamental rethinking of our concepts of language and culture. What is at stake is the very idea of a liberal and humane education.

Author : Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421402321

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The Vulgar Question of Money by Elsie B. Michie Pdf

It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains what this common marriage plot reveals about changing reactions to money in British culture. It was in the novel that writers found space to articulate the anxieties surrounding money that developed along with the rise of capitalism in nineteenth-century England. Michie focuses in particular on the character of the wealthy heiress and how she, unlike her male counterpart, represents the tensions in British society between the desire for wealth and advancement and the fear that economic development would blur the traditional boundaries of social classes. Michie explores how novelists of the period captured with particular vividness England’s ambivalent emotional responses to its own financial successes and engaged questions identical to those raised by political economists and moral philosophers. Each chapter reads a novelist alongside a contemporary thinker, tracing the development of capitalism in Britain: Jane Austen and Adam Smith and the rise of commercial society, Frances Trollope and Thomas Robert Malthus and industrialism, Anthony Trollope and Walter Bagehot and the political influence of money, Margaret Oliphant and John Stuart Mill and professionalism and managerial capitalism, and Henry James and Georg Simmel and the shift of economic dominance from England to America. Even the great romantic novels of the nineteenth century cannot disentangle themselves from the vulgar question of money. Michie’s fresh reading of the marriage plot, and the choice between two women at its heart, shows it to be as much about politics and economics as it is about personal choice.

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1785
Category : English language
ISBN : ONB:+Z207546307

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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose Pdf

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HXKEMM

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Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1796
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017612244

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A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. By Francis Grose by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Witty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1705
Category : Bible and science
ISBN : OXFORD:N11670867

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An Essay Towards a Vindication of the Vulgar Exposition of the Mosaic History of the Creation of the World by John Witty Pdf

Author : Robert FORBY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024359287

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The Vocabulary of East Anglia. An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of ... Norfolk and Suffolk; ... with Proof of Its Antiquity from Etymology and Authority. (Memoir of the Author, by Dawson Turner.) [Edited by G. Turner.] (Vol. III. ... By ... W. J. Spurdens.). by Robert FORBY Pdf

Author : Francis Grose
Publisher : Litres
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9785043821478

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1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose Pdf