- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiv, 215 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- Surfaces are often held to be of lesser consequence than 'deeper' or more 'substantive' aspects of artworks and objects. Yet it is also possible to conceive of the surface in more positive terms: as a site where complex forces meet. Surfaces can be theorized as membranes, protective shells, sensitive skins, even thicknesses in their own right. The surface is not so much a barrier to content as an opportunity for encounter: in new objects, the surface is the site of qualities of finish, texture, the site of tactile interaction, the last point of contact between object and maker, and the first point of contact between object and user. This book includes sixteen essays that explore this theoretically uncharted terrain. The subjects range widely: domestic maintenance; avant-garde fashion; the faking of antiques; postmodern architecture and design; contemporary film costume. Of particular emphasis within the volume are textiles, which are among the most complex and culturally rich materialisations of surface.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Design
- Uniform Title
- Studies in design.
- Subjects
- Note
- "This book is the final outcome of the Surface Tensions research network, convened in 2009 as a partnership between the University for the Creative Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum"--Page xv.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A superficial guide to the deeper meanings of surface -- Surface and practice -- Layering : materiality, time and touch in Japanese lacquer -- Patina and the bourgeoisie : the appearance of the past in nineteenth-century Paris -- A falsification of temporality : carpet distressing in Morocco -- Textiles and time : conservation and public response -- Surface engagements at Astana -- 'No less dangerous to use than that of a Basilisk' : skin and seventeenth century English embroideries -- Colour, language and light in mid-nineteenth century women's fashion -- Wifedressing : designing femininity in 1950s American fashion -- Long coats, flowing fabrics : fashioning masculinity and desire in film and television -- Surface as material, material into surface : dialectic in C.C.P. -- Surface recognition : light and reflection in mid nineteenth-century drawing rooms -- A theory of the paint-by-number surface -- The materiality of print : issues of artifice and integrity related to the printed ceramid surface -- Substance abuse : the postmodern surface.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-1250
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 833341826
- Title
Surface tensions : surface, finish and the meaning of objects / edited by Glenn Adamson and Victoria Kelley.
- Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Distributor
New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
- Type of Content
text
still image
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Studies in Design
Studies in design.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Adamson, Glenn.
Kelley, Victoria.
- Research Call Number
JFE 14-1250