Tartan / Jonathan Faiers.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008Edition: English editionDescription: 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1845203771
- 9781845203771
- 677.022 22
- TS1629 .F35 2008
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 677.022 FAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A446171B |
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677.00966 KRI Cloth in West African history / | 677.00994 SCH French textiles, from 1760 to the present / | 677.02 HU Structure and mechanics of woven fabrics / | 677.022 FAI Tartan / | 677.022 MAC Design and practice for printed textiles / | 677.022 MCN Design and practice for printed textiles / | 677.022 RAY Artists' textiles in Britain, 1945-1970 : a democratic art / |
"Published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-310) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Tartan and History -- 1. Technical Construction: Sett, Weave, Colour -- 2. Early Appearances -- 3. Fragments and Fabrication -- Part II. Tartan and Dress -- 4. Transforming Tartan -- 5. Regulation Tartan -- 6. Erogenous Zones -- 7. Tartan Toffs -- Part III. Tartan's Embrace -- 8. Balmoralization -- 9. Tartan, the Grid and Modernity -- 10. Supernatural Tartan -- 11. Colonization -- 12. Tartan's Translation -- Tartan Timeline.
"Tartan has colonized the world. The flexibility of its design and the traditionalism of its symbolism - as well as the travels of the Scots - have taken the fabric around the globe. Traditionally the visual sign of clanship and district, tartan was popularized outside Scotland by the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement. Hollywood has continued to sustain the romantic fictions of tartan from Brigadoon to Braveheart. At the same time, designers such as Westwood and McQueen have deliberately subverted the traditional and historical associations of the fabric, as have contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney. Post-punk, tartan now turns up in the most surprising places, influencing the conceptual clothing of a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, the stage costumes of Outkast's Andre 3000 and contemporary interior design. Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about this most radical and most traditional of fabrics."--Publisher description.
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