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Surface Tensions

Surface, Finish and the Meaning of Objects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than ‘deeper’ or more ‘substantive’ aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be theorized as membranes, protective shells, sensitive skins, even thicknesses in their own right. The surface is not so much a barrier to content as an opportunity for encounter: in new objects, the surface is the site of qualities of finish, texture, the site of tactile interaction, the last point of contact between object and maker, and the first point of contact between object and user.Surface tensions includes sixteen essays that explore this theoretically uncharted terrain. The subjects range widely: domestic maintenance; avant-garde fashion; the faking of antiques; postmodern architecture and design; contemporary film costume. Of particular emphasis within the volume are textiles, which are among the most complex and culturally rich materialisations of surface. As a whole, the book provides insights into the whole lifecycle of objects, not just their condition when new.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-11-30
Mått170 x 240 x 22 mm
Vikt771 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Design and Material Culture
Antal sidor232
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719087516

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Glenn Adamson and Victoria Kelley: Introduction1. Victoria Kelley: A superficial guide to the deeper meanings of surface2. Lesley Millar: Surface and practiceTime, work3. Christine Guth: Layering: materiality, time and touch in Japanese lacquer4. Manuel Charpy: Patina and the bourgeoisie: the appearance of the past in nineteenth-century Paris5. Myriem Naji: A falsification of temporality: carpet distressing in Morocco6. Margaret Ponsonby: Textiles and time: conservation and public response 7. Victor Buchli: Surface engagements at AstanaTextiles, skin8. Mary Brooks: ‘No less dangerous to use than that of a Basilisk’: skin and seventeenth century English embroideries9. Charlotte Nicklas: Colour, language and light in mid-nineteenth century women's fashion10. Rebecca Arnold: Wifedressing: designing femininity in 1950s American fashion 11. Sarah Gilligan: Long coats, flowing fabrics: fashioning masculinity and desire in film and television12. Ulrich Lehmann: Surface as material, material into surface: dialectic in C.C.P.Depth, im/permeability13. Alice Barnaby: Surface recognition: light and reflection in mid nineteenth-century drawing rooms 14. Stephen Knott: A theory of the paint-by-number surface15. Steve Brown: The materiality of print16. Glenn Adamson: Substance abuse: the postmodern surfaceIndex

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