Fashion and materialism /
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 sour...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Edinburgh, Scotland : |
Publication Dates: | [2018] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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. |
Carrier Form: | 245 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781474407915 1474407919 |
Index Number: | TS1318 |
CLC: | TS105-09 |
Call Number: | TS105-09/L523 |
Contents: | Production into consumption: materialism in fashion -- Historical materialism and historicism: the tiger's leap -- Sartorial semantics: Le Mot dans la mode -- Markets for modernity: salons, galleries and fashion -- Structuralism and materialism: the language of a pur(e)suit -- Dialectics in C.C.P. -- Primary material. |