Dressed With Distinction

Author : Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
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ISBN 13 : 9780990762690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dressed with Distinction written by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, skilled craftsmen in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for many levels of society. City dwellers were renowned for wearing brightly colored silk garments that glittered with gold and silver metallic threads. By contrast, nomadic Bedouins wore woolen garments in hues and designs reflecting their desert lifestyle. The allure of these garments stems from the technical virtuosity with which they were woven and the aesthetic beauty of their drape and stylized designs. "Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria" explores the region's textile production during the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when Syria was an international hub for the trade and production of handwoven cloth. With a focus on the social and seasonal contexts in which garments were worn by men, women, and children, the exhibition's presentation of these distinguished textiles enables audiences to engage with Syrian culture and weaving techniques from a bygone era. This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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Total Pages : 1128 pages
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Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Download or read book Editor & Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 994 pages
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Download or read book Collier's written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1048 pages
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Download or read book United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317652657
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Global Consumption written by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 – 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda. The title explores the topic from the rise of the collector in Renaissance Europe to the birth of consumption as a political tool in the eighteenth century. Beginning with an overview of the history of consumption and the major theorists, such as Bourdieu, Elias and Barthes, who have shaped its development as a field, Baghdiantz McCabe approaches the subject through a clear chronological framework. Supplemented by illlustrations in every chapter and ranging in scope from an analysis of the success of American commodities such as tobacco, sugar and chocolate in Europe and Asia to a discussion of the Dutch tulip mania, A History of Global Consumption: 1500 – 1800 is the perfect guide for all students interested in the social, cultural and economic history of the early modern period.

Author : Teresa Scott Soufas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813132938
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramas of Distinction written by Teresa Scott Soufas and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Europe was the scene of flourishing and innovative dramatic art, and seventeenth-century Spain enjoyed its own Golden Age of the stage. According to traditional studies of this period, however, men seemed to be the only participants. Now in Dramas of Distinction, Teresa Scott Soufas offers the first book-length critical study of five important women playwrights: Angela de Azevedo, Ana Caro Mallen de Soto, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman, and Marfa de Zayas y Sotomayor. By locating the plays within their period, Soufas avoids universalizing women without reg.

Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
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Total Pages : 792 pages
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Download or read book The Old Wives’ Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Wives’ Tale, considered to be one of Bennett’s finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial “Five Towns” of the English Midlands, where he set many of his partially-autobiographical stories. The novel follows the prosperous Baines family, who live above the successful clothing shop they own in the town of Bursley (based on Burslem, in Staffordshire). Even when the two Baines daughters were still young, their characters are already formed. Sophia has “youth, beauty, and rank in her favour,” while Constance is “foolishly good-natured,” with benevolence that is “eternally rising up and overpowering her reason.” Their paths diverge quickly. While still in her teens, the headstrong Sophia elopes with a traveling salesman, leaving England’s provinces for Paris. Constance, who later marries the head employee at the store, hardly ever leaves their town—or even the square where their shop is located. As the novelist J. B. Priestley observed, this gently ironic and sprawling novel sets its “two suffering heroines” against “three conquering heroes, Time, Mutability, and Death.”

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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Men's wear. [semi-monthly] written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 998 pages
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Download or read book Woman's Home Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: