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Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing...

Throughout the 21st century, various craft practices have drawn the attention of academics and th...

The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wolls...

Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Cris...

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As the practice of fashion curation extends into commercial galleries, public and retail spaces, ...

Newcomers to the fashion industry often base costings on the sum of a style's fabric, trims and l...

Built upon the politics of difference, The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon examines artistic practi...

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Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welf...

Our globalised world is encountering problems on an unprecedented scale. Many of the issues we fa...

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal - physical access for the disab...

The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. B...

What if fashion was a state? What kind of state would it be? Probably not a democracy. Otto von B...

Now in its fourth edition, this classic bestselling book has been updated with brand new chapters...

'Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing for In...

Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the ...

Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultur...

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Needlework, Affect and Social Transformationoffers an original framework for moving beyond binary...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of technological progress and mass con...

In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalys...

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist 'minimum dwelling', exploring how ear...

This open access book takes a queer, feminist, and decolonial technoscience approach to the ecolo...

'Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-present...

This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, ...

With contributions from leading experts, this edited collection presents original research on the...

'Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Ar...

This open access handbook explores the increasingly cross-disciplinary nature of cultural work an...

Textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. Up until the 19t...

Curating Transcultural Spacesasks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspe...

Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and ...

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressin...

Between 1966 and 1976, American artist Nancy Spero completed some of her most aggressively politi...

The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over set...

Fashion in Altermodern China examines key features of women's fashion within the cultural and pol...

Central to the development of abstract art, in the early decades of the 20th century was the conc...

In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby w...

The nineteenth century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art mark...

The history of photography, perhaps more so than any other art, is a history of technology that i...

Beautifully illustrated with over 1000 full-colour images, the 28th edition of the Epica Book sho...

A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly inf...

What is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's rec...

Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy, attractive guide...