Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Greed

Greed

Author: Richard Girling
ISBN: 9780552173223
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Evolution has given us an instinct that is as crucial to our survival such as fear or sex but, in the third millennium,...  Read More >>

Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism

Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism...

Author: Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber ,  Alicia Ory DeNicola
ISBN: 9781472594853
Format: Paperback
$56.99

From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies...  Read More >>

Stuffocation: Living More With Less

Stuffocation: Living More With Less

Author: James Wallman ,  Kris Dyer
ISBN: 9781489080059
Format: Audio
$56.87

We have more stuff than we could ever need - clothes we don't wear, kit we don't use, and toys we don't play with....  Read More >>

Stuffocation: Living More With Less

Stuffocation: Living More With Less

Author: James Wallman ,  Kris Dyer
ISBN: 9781489080066
Format: Audio
$49.11

We have more stuff than we could ever need - clothes we don't wear, kit we don't use, and toys we don't play with....  Read More >>

Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art

Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art

Author: Miguel de Baca ,  Makeda Best
ISBN: 9781443883757
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art explores the powerful relationship between artistic production and...  Read More >>

That Was Then, This Is Now: Contemporary Archaeology and Material Cultures in Australia

That Was Then, This Is Now: Contemporary Archaeology...

Author: Anne Clarke ,  Ursula K. Frederick
ISBN: 9781443885386
Format: Hardback
$216.35

That Was Then, This Is Now is a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies...  Read More >>

The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed

The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed

Author: Jared Poley
ISBN: 9781785331268
Format: Hardback
$256.16

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over...  Read More >>

Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites, and Practices

Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites, and Practices...

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) ,  Christopher Breward (National Galleries of Scotland, UK)
ISBN: 9781472583178
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Through case studies focussing on the work of an international range of scholars, Fashion Studies examines how...  Read More >>

German Facade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German Facade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500...

Author: Professor Randall Ott
ISBN: 9781472459060
Format: Electronic book text
$194.06

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy,...  Read More >>

German Facade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German Facade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500...

Author: Professor Randall Ott
ISBN: 9781472459077
Format: Electronic book text
$194.06

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy,...  Read More >>

Material Bernini

Material Bernini

Author: Carolina Mangone ,  Evonne Anita Levy
ISBN: 9781472459237
Format: Electronic book text
$155.25

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini...  Read More >>

Material Bernini

Material Bernini

Author: Carolina Mangone ,  Evonne Anita Levy
ISBN: 9781472459244
Format: Electronic book text
$155.25

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini...  Read More >>

The Traffic Power Structure

The Traffic Power Structure

Author: Planka.nu Planka.nu
ISBN: 9781629631530
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The modern traffic system is ecologically unsustainable, emotionally stressful, and poses a physical threat to individuals...  Read More >>

Other Things

Other Things

Author: Bill Brown
ISBN: 9780226076652
Format: Hardback
$163.95

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest...  Read More >>

German Façade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German Façade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500...

Author: Randall Ott
ISBN: 9781472459053
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts

Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History,...

Author: Mary Jo Arnoldi
ISBN: 9781935623168
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"""A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge."""  Read More >>

Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Author: Heidi Strobel ,  Heidi A. Strobel
ISBN: 9781472456311
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances...  Read More >>

Europe's Rich Fabric: The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)

Europe's Rich Fabric: The Consumption, Commercialisation,...

Author: Bart Lambert ,  Katherine Anne Wilson
ISBN: 9781409444428
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Cute in Contemporary Japanese Art

The Aesthetics of Cute in Contemporary Japanese Art...

Author: Yoke-Sum Wong
ISBN: 9780230105393
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This book aims to explore cultural tensions in Japanese contemporary art through theory, art and archival documents,...  Read More >>

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