Deco Dandy. Designing Masculinity in 1920s Paris, Hardback - John Potvin

This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure o...

This book productively contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (Art Deco). Through a sustained focus on the figure o...

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Mark BraudeNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 240 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

Reducere. Paris, 1920s. Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model a...

Reducere. This book, Hollywood Deco Fashions of the 1920s, traces the experiences of a young French woman along the path she followed in 1919 from a very sma...

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Reducere. Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. I...

DescriptionArt Deco Knits aims to inspire the modern knitter to create a vintage-inspired wardrobe, or simply add a touch of Art Deco glamour to th...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael John PinfoldIllustration(s): col. IllustrationsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2010Di...

DescriptionA history of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris told through the lens of the cocktails they loved In the Prohibition era, American cockt...

Reducere. Horses in the Sand, the author's sequel to her first book, First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, is a collection of stories that document a queer woman'...

Publisher: D.C.Thomson & Co LtdIllustration(s): Black & White and colour illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

DescriptionWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Ann es folles, when Parisians emerged from the horr...

Dandy and Dazza were different in so many ways. Dandy was a best in show sort of hound. Dazza was a rough and tumble sort of mongrel. Can these ver...

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Reducere. In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful stre...

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling autho...

Reducere. How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.

A complete guide to the management of design risk.Publisher: INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERINGAuthor(s): JOHN CARPENTERNumber of pages: 240Publication...

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An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messag...

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

DescriptionThe androgynous, asexual Buddha of contemporary popular imagination stands in stark contrast to the muscular, virile, and sensual figure...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Sarah GodfreyIllustration(s): 15 B/W illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensi...

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Lian DolanNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 33Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. DescriptionAt 5: 55 p.m. on March 10, 1933, Southern California was rocked by a massive earthquake. Wood-frame bungalows lost their chimneys, and e...

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Suits that pop with loud colors and dazzling patterns, complete with a nearly ubiquitous bowtie, define the style of the new "dandy." Described as ...

How rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the white American Heartland are constitutive of racist and heteropatriarchal vio...

In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Se...

Showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely tod...

This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine conformity express...

Perfect for readers of EARLY ONE MORNING and THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, Headline Review's Lead Launch for Spring 2021 is a gripping, moving debut no...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Reducere. A transatlantic novel for fans of A.S. Byatt and Don DeLillo. Shaun is an American professor enjoying his sabbatical--and his substantial inheritan...

The question of Muslim identity-and, more specifically, Muslim masculinities, political loyalty, and action-has become the central pivot for the de...

Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

The instant New York Times bestseller, inspired by the true story of the librarians at the American Library in Paris who risked their lives during ...

Exploring the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today

In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is...

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...