Turban

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-02-01
• Mått: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
• Vikt: 780 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 256
• Förlag: Reaktion Books
• ISBN: 9781836390749

• Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
• Modedesign och textilformgivning
• Kulturvetenskap

Chris Filstrup (Author) Chris Filstrup was Chief of the Oriental Division at the New York Public Library and Dean of Libraries at Stony Brook University. He is co-author with Jane Merrill of The Wedding Night (2011) among other titles. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.Jane Merrill (Author) Jane Merrill has written for many national U.S. magazines and is the author of The Showgirl Costume (2018) and other cultural histories. She lives in Saint George, Maine.

Delightful: a work full of insight, mischief, wisdom and, most pleasing of all, illustrations . . . [The] book traces the path of the turban into Western iconography and is a study of how this most Eastern form of headwear captured the Occidental imagination, coming to feature in art, literature, fashion, festivity and, in the 20th century, Hollywood movies. - Wall Street JournalFilstrup and Merrill write enjoyable prose not weighed down by theoretical baggage. With gorgeous illustrations and no-less-colourful characters, their grand tour with the turban is highly recommended. - BBC History MagazineFilstrup and Merrill trace the history of head-wrapped cloth, from sixth-century Bedouins protecting themselves against the desert sun to Sarah Jessica Parker donning a gold-silk wrap designed by Ralph Lauren . . . The Turban exposes a paradox. I can’t imagine ever surrendering my turban. It’s become soldered to my identity, serving as both the ultimate in-group badge and a versatile stylistic accessory: eye-catching, a bit exotic, an opportunity to add color and flair. - Manvir Singh, The New YorkerI'm impressed by the scope of this study, from the turban as a marker of religious affiliation to a prop for Rembrandt to a distinctive fashion for women. Headgear off to Filstrup and Merrill. - Gay TaleseThe Turban is a lively romp through the history and geography of this now ubiquitous headgear. The book offers unexpected nuggets from ancient origins in Asia to the turban's function in contemporary fashion. - Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityFilstrup and Merrilll fold and twist together a myriad of stories that touch on turbans’ symbolic presence in the Western imagination . . . The authors include as many topics as there are ways of tying a turban [and] the illustrations, many in color, enrich the text with examples in a wide variety of media . . . the reader arrives at the end of the journey with a richer understanding of more than just fashion. - ARLIS

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