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Wild Things
The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Taschenbuch von Judy Attfield
Sprache: Englisch

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What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?

This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's "lives". Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as "things with attitude" differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted.

Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?

This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's "lives". Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as "things with attitude" differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted.

Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
Über den Autor
Judy Attfield
Zusammenfassung
Reissue of a foundational work bridging design and anthropology
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations
Preface to the original edition
Preface to the current edition by Claudia Marina
Introduction: The material culture of everyday life

Part I: Things
1. The meaning of design: Things with attitude
2. The meaning of things: Design in the lower case
3. Things and the dynamics of social change

Part II: Themes
4. Continuity: Authenticity and the paradoxical nature of reproduction
5. Change: The ephemeral materiality of identity
6. Containment: The ecology of personal possessions

Part III: Contexts
7. Space: Where things take place
8. Time: bringing things to life
9. The body: The threshold between nature and culture

Conclusion
Afterword by Jo Turney
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350070714
ISBN-10: 1350070718
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Attfield, Judy
Redaktion: Dilnot, Clive
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 236 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Judy Attfield
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 115907290
Über den Autor
Judy Attfield
Zusammenfassung
Reissue of a foundational work bridging design and anthropology
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations
Preface to the original edition
Preface to the current edition by Claudia Marina
Introduction: The material culture of everyday life

Part I: Things
1. The meaning of design: Things with attitude
2. The meaning of things: Design in the lower case
3. Things and the dynamics of social change

Part II: Themes
4. Continuity: Authenticity and the paradoxical nature of reproduction
5. Change: The ephemeral materiality of identity
6. Containment: The ecology of personal possessions

Part III: Contexts
7. Space: Where things take place
8. Time: bringing things to life
9. The body: The threshold between nature and culture

Conclusion
Afterword by Jo Turney
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350070714
ISBN-10: 1350070718
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Attfield, Judy
Redaktion: Dilnot, Clive
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 236 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Judy Attfield
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2020
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 115907290
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