Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Author: Hobo LeeThere's Something about a Train #4
Author: Hobo LeePublisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621067917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
If you've seen the movie Catching Out, then you've met Lee, who starting in the late 80s put out a biannual cut-and-paste zine offering stories, pictures, news clippings, adventures, lingo, and advice from railyards and boxcars and squats around the world.
Xerography Debt
Author: Davida G. BreierPublisher:
ISBN: 9781621061052
Category : Letters to the editor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Xerography Debt might be best summarized as an obsession for all involved, none of which are likely to be as wealthy as the preserved zine king depicted on the cover. Billy da Bling Bunny Roberts recently said "It's the glue that holds the zine community together." Maintaining three issues per year, the 38th issue of Xerography Debt is still the same ol' charming personality, allowing a hand-picked cast of contributors to wax philosophical about the zines they love. In an age of blogs and tweets, Xerography Debt is a beautiful, earnest anachronism, a publication that seems to come from a different era, but is firmly entrenched in the now.
Fashion, Culture, and Identity
Author: Fred DavisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616795X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.
Author: Jennifer CraikCat Party #6
Author: Katie HaegelePublisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781621068266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Contributors reflect on their relationships with their feline companions while quarantined together during the coronavirus pandemic in this new, heartfelt anthology of comics and stories about the cats we've known. Inside you'll find the surprisingly lighthearted story of Soxy the haunted-house cat by Vanessa Berry, the quarantined days of comics artist Jay McQuirns narrated by Lucy and Squetch, a poetic ode by Joe Carlough, Jackie Soro's illustrated meditation on the relative merits of sharing her isolation with a cat vs a girlfriend, a reminder that All Cats Are Babies, two of Missy Kulik's comics about her cat Nilla, Defectivepudding's demented fairy tale comic about a pie, and Helen Kaucher on felines' and humans' shared dreams of escape from the house.
Against Prisons
Author: Catherine BakerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781621065616
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A short, iconic essay that makes the case for the abolition of the prison system. French journalist Catherine Baker, who has also advocated for dismantling obligatory schooling, doesn't stop at why we should shut down prisons, she also looks at what alternatives we may use to replace such a repressive, ineffective system. Originally written in 2005 and translated by Doug Imrie and Michael William.
Fashion
Author: Jennifer CraikPublisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 9781845204518
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Fashion is everywhere. It is one of the main ways in which we present ourselves to others, signaling what we want to communicate about our sexuality, wealth, professionalism, subcultural and political allegiances, social status, even our mood. It is also a global industry with huge economic, political and cultural impact on the lives of all of us who make, sell, wear or even just watch fashion.Fashion: the key concepts presents a clear introduction to the complex world of fashion. The aim throughout is to present a comprehensive but also accessible and provocative analysis. Readers will discover how the fashion industry is structured and how it thinks, the links between catwalk, celebrity branding, media promotion and mainstream retail, how clothes mean different things in different parts of the world, and how popular culture influences fashion and how fashion shapes global culture.Illustrated with a wealth of photographs, the text is further enlivened with over 30 detailed and rich case studies - ranging across topics as diverse as the meaning of black in fashion, the rise of celebrity branding, the cult of thinness, the politics of veiling, the eroticism of shoes and the power of cosmetics.Features:§ Boxed chapter overviews open each chapter§ Bullet points summarizing key ideas conclude each chapter§ Chapter discussions are illustrated with integrated case material§ Each chapter is supported by extended Case Studies§ Key words are highlighted in chapters and defined in an extensive Glossary§ Further Reading guides the reader to other literature§ A timeline of Fashion Milestones provides a chronology of major events in the history of fashion
The Language of Clothes
Author: Alison LuriePublisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805062441
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The classic book about the clothes we wear and what they say about us. Even before we speak to someone in a meeting, at a party, or on the street, our clothes often express important information (or misinformation) about our occupation, origin, personality, opinions, and tastes. And we pay close attention to how others dress as well; though we may not be able to put what we observe into words, we unconsciously register the information, so that when we meet and converse we have already spoken to one another in a universal tongue. Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, is our savvy guide and interpreter on this tour through the history of fashion. She provides fascinating insights into how changing sex roles, political upheavals, and class structure have influenced costume. Whether she is describing the enormous amount of clothing worn by early Victorian women or illuminating the significance of the long robes worn by aging men throughout history to connote eminence, her analysis is playful, clever, and always on target.
