Portrait Of A Woman In Silk
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Author |
: Zara Anishanslin |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300220551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300220553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portrait of a Woman in Silk by : Zara Anishanslin
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.
Author |
: Zara Anishanslin |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2016-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300197051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300197055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portrait of a Woman in Silk by : Zara Anishanslin
16. 1763: Unraveling Empire -- Coda: 1791 -- Note on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Author |
: Gail Tsukiyama |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2011-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429952293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429952296 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women of the Silk by : Gail Tsukiyama
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
Author |
: Agnes Smedley |
Publisher |
: Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0912670444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780912670447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution by : Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."
Author |
: Junichi Saga |
Publisher |
: Kodansha Amer Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0870119885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780870119880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memories of Silk and Straw by : Junichi Saga
Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
Author |
: Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2021-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474249904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474249906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Book of Fashion by : Ulinka Rublack
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.
Author |
: Alessandro Baricco |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2008-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307490957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307490955 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition) by : Alessandro Baricco
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.
Author |
: Margaretta M. Lovell |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 351 |
Release |
: 2007-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812219913 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812219910 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art in a Season of Revolution by : Margaretta M. Lovell
"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects."--"Journal of the Early Republic"
Author |
: Kerry Postle |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2020-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780008310288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0008310289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman in the Painting by : Kerry Postle
A celebrated artist. A baker’s daughter. A love that will change everything.
Author |
: Evie Dunmore |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984805720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 198480572X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portrait of a Scotsman by : Evie Dunmore
The Instant USA Today Bestseller! A BuzzFeed Best Romance of 2021! One of Marie Claire’s most anticipated romances of 2021! One of Cosmopolitan's most anticipated fall books of 2021! Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do? London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life: 1. Acclaim as an artist. 2. A noble cause. 3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman. Why then does this Oxford scholar find herself at the altar with the darkly attractive financier Lucian Blackstone, whose murky past and ruthless business practices strike fear in the hearts of Britain's peerage? Trust Hattie to take an invigorating little adventure too far. Now she's stuck with a churlish Scot who just might be the end of her ambitions.... When the daughter of his business rival all but falls into his lap, Lucian sees opportunity. As a self-made man, he has vast wealth but holds little power, and Hattie might be the key to finally setting long-harbored political plans in motion. Driven by an old desire for revenge, he has no room for his new wife's apprehensions or romantic notions, bewitching as he finds her. But a sudden journey to Scotland paints everything in a different light. Hattie slowly sees the real Lucian and realizes she could win everything--as long as she is prepared to lose her heart.