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  • Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli

    Fashion, Femininity and Modernity

    by Ilya Parkins ...
    Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began.Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Fashion

    New Feminist Essays

    Edited by Ilya Parkins, Maryanne Dever ...
    Inspired by a rapidly changing fashion landscape, Fashion: New Feminist Essays offers historical and contemporary studies that reveal the relationships between fashion with gender, sexuality, race, and age.Fashion is a rich terrain for feminist scholars in the twenty-first century. Explicit engagements with feminist and queer politics, critical interventions by industry outsiders across digital ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Fashion and Feeling

    The Affective Politics of Dress

    Edited by Roberto Filippello, Ilya Parkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress explores the complex nexus of fashion and the feeling body from a variety of critical perspectives across fashion studies, anthropology, sociology, design practice, and media studies. It asks such questions as: What does fashion look and feel like in an age dominated by amplified anxiety, isolation, depression, and precariousness? How are ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

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  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Thinking Through Fashion

    A Guide to Key Theorists

    Edited by Anneke Smelik, Dr Agnès Rocamora ...
    Series series Dress Cultures
    Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts.This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, ... Read more

    $31.69 CAD

  • How to make yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool

    by Hélène Frichot ...
    Series Book 3 - The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
    Set amidst the experimental ecology of practices that supports feminist thinking and doing in architecture, this small book outlines an instruc- tion guide that presents six provocative steps toward the invention of productive concept-tools. It invites readers to explore creative and messy methodologies that combine an aesthetics with a practical ethics. Frichot encourages us to think and do ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extra/Ordinary

    Craft and Contemporary Art

    by M. Anna Fariello, Dennis Stevens, Louise Mazanti, Paula Owen ...
    Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Creative Writing Studies

    by Graeme HARPER and Jeri KROLL ...

    $19.99 CAD

  • Redrawing Anthropology

    Materials, Movements, Lines

    Edited by Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think about creativity and perception, to grasp the dynamics of improvisatory ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Communication Studies

    The Essential Resource

    Edited by Andrew Beck, Peter Bennett, Peter Wall ...
    Series series Essentials
    This book brings together a huge range of material including academic articles, film scripts and interplanetary messages adrift on space probes with supporting commentary to clarify their imporatance to the field. Communication Studies: The Essential Resource is a collection of essays and texts for all those studying communication at university and pre-university level.Individual sections address: ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World

    WalkingLab

    by Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Beauty is Nowhere

    Ethical Issues in Art and Design

    by Saul Ostrow ...
    Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    This book is an important addition to the discourse on contemporary ethical issues in art and design. Beauty is Nowhere makes a timely contribution to the necessary explanation of the relationship of ethics to art and design practice, and the ability of the arts to matter as we approach the next millennium. From informal discussion to formal essay, distinguished theoreticians and practitioners of ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD