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Beauty Design: Cosmetics as Will and Representation
Fischer V
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Description for Beauty Design: Cosmetics as Will and Representation
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 70 illus. BIC Classification: MNPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 764.
Text in English & German. Cosmetically-enhanced beauty is something that has existed for decades. Over the course of the last century, however, a cosmetics industry has arisen that is worth millions. Its products claim to optimise visual appearance, to bestow inner and outer health and to delay aging, under a veneer of medical credibility and reliable results. Cosmetics deals in alleged 'deep-acting' substances, which are supposed to detoxify and to purify the body from within. However, the whole arsenal of cosmetic ingredients is founded more on persuasion than conviction. Cosmetics is always a matter of mimicking an ideal. To this ... Read more
Text in English & German. Cosmetically-enhanced beauty is something that has existed for decades. Over the course of the last century, however, a cosmetics industry has arisen that is worth millions. Its products claim to optimise visual appearance, to bestow inner and outer health and to delay aging, under a veneer of medical credibility and reliable results. Cosmetics deals in alleged 'deep-acting' substances, which are supposed to detoxify and to purify the body from within. However, the whole arsenal of cosmetic ingredients is founded more on persuasion than conviction. Cosmetics is always a matter of mimicking an ideal. To this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681796
SKU
V9783936681796
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About Fischer V
The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was deputy director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main for over ten years. Since 1995 he has built up a new design department in the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung ... Read more
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