Fashion Underground

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300214628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion Underground written by Valerie Steele and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Style is about expressing yourself, ' says Susanne Bartsch. 'You can be whatever you want to be--a silver screen star, a Marie Antoinette baroque creature, or a Victorian punk. I love that about fashion and make-up.' Susanne Bartsch has long been a highly visible player in New York City nightlife, with her parties known for their mix of uptown and downtown, gay and straight, high fashion, street style, and Mardi Gras extravaganza. Her penchant for extreme fashion and make-up have made her name the equivalent of a couture label among the 'Fashion Underground, ' a diverse group of individuals united around a love of fashion, defined as an embodied practice of self-expression and transformation. This creative subculture distinguishes itself from the commercial, mainstream fashion system, but their extraordinary styles, often bordering on performance art, have often influenced the wider world of fashion and beauty"--Museum at FIT web site

Author : Alfrun Kliems
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863988
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Modernity written by Alfrun Kliems and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. The works she considers are "underground" in the sense that they were produced illegally, or were received as subversive after the regimes had fallen. Her study challenges common notions of ‘underground’ as an umbrella term for nonconformism. Rather, it depicts it as a sociopoetic reflection of modernity, intimately linked to urban settings, with tropes and aesthetic procedures related to Surrealism, Dadaism, Expressionism, and, above all, pop and counterculture. The author discusses these commonalities and distinctions in Czech, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, and German authors, musicians, and filmmakers. She identifies intertextual relations across languages and generations, and situates her findings in a transatlantic context (including the Beat Generation, Susan Sontag, Neil Young) and the historical framework of Romanticism and modernity (including Baudelaire and Brecht). Despite this wide brief, the book never loses sight of its core message: Underground is no arbitrary expression of discontent, but rather the result of a fundamental conflict at the socio-philosophical roots of modernity.

Author : Tanya Melendez-Escalante
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135034396X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today - ¡Moda Hoy! written by Tanya Melendez-Escalante and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today: ¡Moda Hoy! examines Latin American and Latinx fashion design from the past 20 years, asking “What is Latin American fashion design in the 21st century”? The book seeks to explore the sociohistorical influences and cultural dynamics that have propelled the development of the unique sartorial bricolage that is Latin American and Latinx fashion. Through a series of themes and topics favored by contemporary designers – including Indigenous heritage, art, sustainable design, politics, gender, elegance, and popular culture – it highlights established designers with a strong international presence, such as Isabel Toledo, Carolina Herrera, Rick Owens, Oscar de la Renta, Carla Fernández, and Gabriela Hearst. Accompanied by regional brands and emerging talents, and case studies that take an in-depth look into specific designers, and beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today is essential reading for fashion enthusiasts who have an overlapping interest in Latin American studies, and all who appreciate the history and visual culture of fashion and Latin America.

Author : Eric C. Nystrom
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179335
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing Underground written by Eric C. Nystrom and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.

Author : Sam Knee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908714268
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bag I'm In written by Sam Knee and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual survey of the youth subcultures that defined fashion in Britain from the mid to the late 20th Century.

Author : Leisure Arts
Publisher : Leisure Arts
ISBN 13 : 1609006747
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Row Tunisian Fashion written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5729 Short Row Tunisian Fashion Tunisian crochet is so rewarding! What could possibly make it better? Working in Short Rows! Each project in this book from Kim Guzman is actually a series of small fabric segments that are quick to complete. In less time than you might imagine, you'll make fun scarves and hats, a lacy wrap, a feminine cardigan, and a romantic hooded riding cape -- all with Short Row Tunisian Crochet. This exciting technique will motivate your fingers to fly a little faster, helping you finish one extraordinary project after another!

Author : Paul R. Wonning
Publisher : Mossy Feet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Home Electric System written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A Guide to the Home Electric System provides readers with a complete handbook to the home electric system. Understanding the fundamentals of how a residential electrical wiring system helps the home owner understand the electrical wiring components in a home as well as a guide to how a house is wired. This is not an instructional manual on how to wire a home, however it is an invaluable guide as to how the electric system is configured and how the power company supplies electric power to the home. A glossary of electric wiring terms and a guide to home batteries is included, as well. Residential electric, house electrical, electric power system fundamentals, electrical wiring residential, basic home electrical wiring, electrical wiring residential, home wiring guide

Author : Olayemi Karim
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491790571
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Underground written by Olayemi Karim and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several thousand people travel on the London underground daily where life is fully representative of the cosmopolitan nature and the diversity of everyday London. In Tales of the Underground, author Olayemi Karim offers a guide to help people understand the nuances and the cultural peculiarities of traveling in the city. Olayemi, who commutes daily to the city for her job, began documenting the interesting experiences of her travels on the rails on both her Facebook page and blog. She records the unspoken rules and the expected behaviors in the London transportation network, for instance, the strange look returned by commuters, when caught staring. She also explains a number of common sights and things observed on the Underground as well as unusual and often humorous situations. Tales of the Underground gives a fly-on-the-wall narrative of seemingly innocuous and unconnected events which, when pieced together, offers an understanding of both the travelers and the flavors of London.

Author : Maria Vaccarella
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881606
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion-Wise written by Maria Vaccarella and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Fashion-Wise offers an interdisciplinary and transcultural approach to the phenomenon of fashion, investigating its historical, socio-political and artistic aspects. The chapters collected in the volume discuss fashion in the contexts of personal and national identity, gender politics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, history, consumer culture, ethics, education, performance studies, authenticity, disability studies, sport and celebrity culture. The authors included in this seven-part volume not only comment on the ways in which we have been ‘consuming’ fashion across centuries and cultures but also explore its relevance as a critical subject in cultural studies.

Author : Eric James Abbey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451254
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garage Rock and Its Roots written by Eric James Abbey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When British rockers invaded the United States in the 1960s, youths responded by growing long hair and playing electrified music in suburban garages. Garage rock has grown from a hobby of the rebellious to a cultural statement: anything not mainstream, from alternative country to hardcore punk, can be included in the realm of contemporary garage rock. Issues of rebellion, clothing and hair styles, playing styles, nostalgia and "selling out" permeate the modern culture of garage rock. Pure rock from the '50s, '60s and '70s and older root styles such as swing and rockabilly have been reasserted in this form, leaving the confines of garages for clubs and other venues where fans' tastes are tuned to the underground. This study explores garage rock as it evolved alongside mainstream music and examines how it reflects notions of self though the assertion of individuality and rebellion in prosperous postmodern times. Using the Detroit music scene as the focus, the author presents two sections. The first section examines the creation of the scene, the importance of relationships to the past and the appearance used throughout. The second section analyzes the alliances and relationships to society that undergird contemporary garage rock. The author maintains garage rock has developed a place in American cultural history, and its continuation will be based on how the underground situates itself within postmodern society.