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A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

  • Reinvigorates materialism as a critical approach to analysing economics, society and media through the thematic focus on fashion as the economically and culturally dominant sector within post-industrial societies
  • Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena, north-east Italy
  • Redirects fashion theory toward materiality and materialism from previous art-historical and social-anthropological approaches
  • Exposes the need critically to engage with fashion production, away from the exclusive reading of fashion through its media representation
  • Extends the discussion of fashion production from aspects of labour conditions and sustainability to the materialist critique of the fashion system

A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

  • Reinvigorates materialism as a critical approach to analysing economics, society and media through the thematic focus on fashion as the economically and culturally dominant sector within post-industrial societies
  • Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena, north-east Italy
  • Redirects fashion theory toward materiality and materialism from previous art-historical and social-anthropological approaches
  • Exposes the need critically to engage with fashion production, away from the exclusive reading of fashion through its media representation
  • Extends the discussion of fashion production from aspects of labour conditions and sustainability to the materialist critique of the fashion system
Über den Autor
Ulrich Lehmann is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Arts at The New School, New York. He has contributed to a wide range of journals and edited collections on fashion and material culture. He is the author of Josiah McElheny: Object Lesson (White Cube, 2013) and Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity (MIT Press, 2001).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781474452670
ISBN-10: 1474452671
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lehmann, Ulrich
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 232 x 151 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Ulrich Lehmann
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2019
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 115468259

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