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Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Anna Moran
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Description for Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture
Paperback. Editor(s): Moran, Anna; O'Brien, Sorcha. Num Pages: 184 pages, 52 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACX; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 410.
How are love and emotion embodied in material form?
Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places and times.
Addressing both designed 'things with attitude' and the 'wild things' of material culture, Love Objects explores a wide range of objects, from 19th-century American portraits displaying men's passionate friendships to the devotional and political meanings of religious statues ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472517197
SKU
V9781472517197
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Ref
99-2
About Anna Moran
Anna Moran is Coordinator of the MA in Design History and Material Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Ireland. Sorcha O'Brien teaches Design History and Theory to Product and Furniture Design students in Kingston University, UK.
Reviews for Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture
The particular strength of this book resides in the perfect balance between the originality of the case studies (if the object they illustrate are very usual, the examples that illustrate them are often quite the contrary) and the capacity of the authors to enrich their own methodology, which is either theoretical (the common denominator being in many cases a certain ... Read more