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The Design Culture Reader
Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world.While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems). The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future.Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas – especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences of modern life.Particular essays focus on topics such as design and the senses, design and war and design and technology, while the editor's introduction to the collection provides a compelling argument for situating design studies at the very forefront of contemporary thought.
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Japanese Tattoos : History * Culture * Design
Thinking of getting a Japanese-style tattoo? Want to avoid a permanent mistake? Japanese Tattoos is an insider's look at the world of Japanese irezumi (tattoos). Japanese Tattoos explains the imagery featured in Japanese tattoos so that readers can avoid getting ink they don't understand or, worse, that they'll regret. This photo-heavy book also traces the history of Japanese tattooing, putting the iconography and kanji symbols in their proper context so readers will be better informed as to what they mean and have a deeper understanding of irezumi.Featured tattoos range from traditional tebori (hand-poked) and kanji tattoos to anime-inspired and modern works—as well as everything in between.For the first time, Japanese tattooing is put together in a visually attractive, informative, and authoritative way.Along with the 350+ photos of tattoos, Japanese Tattoos also features interviews with Japanese tattoo artists on a variety of topics.What's more, it contains interviews with clients, who are typically overlooked in similar books, allowing them to discuss what their Japanese tattoos mean to them.Those who read this informative tattoo guide will be more knowledgeable about Japanese tattoos should they want to get inked or if they are merely interested in Japanese art and culture.
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Nordic Hands: 25 Fiber Craft Projects to Discover Scandinavian Culture
Nordic Hands: 25 Fiber Craft Projects to Discover Scandinavian Culture
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Nordic Hands : 25 Fiber Craft Projects to Discover Scandinavian Culture
An abundance of step-by-step fiber art projects to bring Scandinavian style to life in your home. "Osterhaug's close connection to her heritage is palpable, and her accomplishments as a journalist, writer, and fiber artist earn this book a spot in any crafter's library as the resource on all things Nordic." —Christine Jablonski, Handwoven By exploring the cultures and traditions behind the charm of Nordic crafts, you can enjoy extra-meaningful making! The 25 projects mix unusual and more-familiar patterns and techniques, ranging from danskbrogd pillows and monk’s belt guest towels to knitted bags, rosemaling with wool, and a rug inspired by Icelandic terrain. • Peek into the values and beliefs core to Scandinavian life—nature, community, craftsmanship, and sustainability. • For each value, create 4 to 7 beautiful and thoughtfully designed fiber art projects featuring knitting, felting, and weaving. • Each project's difficulty level is marked (beginner, advanced beginner, and intermediate). • Projects by respected designers including Becky Ashenden, Laura Berlage, Sara Bixler, Susan J.Foulkes, Lisa Hill, Tom Knisely, Jan Mostrom, and John Mullarkey, to name just a few. • 12 projects are felting or knitting; 13 projects are weaving (rigid heddle, inkle, tapestry, tablet, and finger weaving). The 25 projects include these and more: Nature • Nordic Summer and Winter Knitted Throw • Felted Telemark Bouquet Community • Rustic Linen Placemats • Monk’s Belt Towels of Welcome Craftsmanship • Knitted Sølje Curtains to Celebrate the Sun • A Nordic Sweater for Your Laptop Sustainability • Rags-to-Riches Rug • Cup Cozies to Go
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Scandinavian Unexceptionalism : Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
Scandinavian countries have been praised for their high levels of welfare provision and their economic and social outcomes.It is true that they are successful by most reasonable measures.However, Scandinavia's success story predated the welfare state.For example, Sweden began to fall behind as the state grew rapidly from the 1960s.Between 1870 and 1936, Sweden enjoyed the highest growth rate in the industrialised world.However, between 1936 and 2008, the growth rate was only 13th out of 28 industrialised nations.Between 1975 and the mid-1990s, Sweden went from being the 4th richest nation in the world to the 13th.Many analyses of Scandinavian countries conflate correlation with causality.It is clear that many of the desirable features of Scandinavian societies, such as low income inequality, low levels of poverty and high levels of economic growth predated the development of the welfare state.These and other indicators began to deteriorate after the expansion of the welfare state and the increase in taxes to fund it.
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Asian Theatre Puppets : Creativity, Culture and Craftsmanship: From the Collection of Paul Lin
This stunningly illustrated book introduces for the first time the beauty of theatre puppets from all major Asian traditions, taking the reader on an inspiring journey through hundreds of years of craftsmanship and creativity in nearly 350 glorious photographs.Asian Theatre Puppets will have immense appeal both to audiences with an interest in the Asian arts, as well as to the general reader, as it opens up a whole realm of artistic expression that has hitherto been largely unknown in the West.
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Culture
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward.Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge.In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualizations of it have evolved over the last two centuries—from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism’s encroaches to present-day capitalism’s most profitable export.Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat "unfashionable" thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams, and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule over the "uncultured" masses.Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society.
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Love Objects : Emotion, Design and Material Culture
How are love and emotion embodied in material form?Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places and times. Addressing both designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of material culture, Love Objects explores a wide range of objects, from 19th-century American portraits displaying men's passionate friendships to the devotional and political meanings of religious statues in 1920s Ireland.
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