Fashion and Materialism

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Ulrich Lehmann (Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Arts, New School, New York)

Fashion and Materialism

Ulrich Lehmann (Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Arts, New School, New York)

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Edinburgh University Press
14 November 2019

Material culture; Fashion & society; Textile industries

Series: Technicities

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he offers insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles. Case studies include the male suit in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest (1959), the revolutionary production methods in the work of Carol Christian Poell and the innovative textile manufacture of Bonotto in Molvena (north-East Italy)

By: Ulrich Lehmann (Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Arts New School New York)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9781474452670
ISBN 10: 1474452671
Series: Technicities
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 November 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Production Into Consumption: Materialism in Fashion Chapter 2: Historical Materialism and Historicism: The Tiger’s Leap Chapter 3: Sartorial Semantics: Le Mot dans la mode Chapter 4: Markets for Modernity: Salons, Galleries and Fashion Chapter 5: Structuralism and Materialism: The Language of a Pur(e)Suit Chapter 6: Dialectics in C.C.P. Chapter 7: Primary Material Concluding Remark Select bibliography Index

Ulrich Lehmann is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Arts at The New School, New York. He has contributed to a wide range of journals and edited collections on fashion and material culture. He is the author of Josiah McElheny: Object Lesson (White Cube, 2013) and Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity (MIT Press, 2001).

Reviews for Fashion and Materialism

"Ulrich Lehmann's work to date has been invaluable in bringing together the history of ideas with the ever-shifting concept of 'fashion'. In Fashion and Materialism he offers a timely reflection on the manner in which the Marxist understanding of historical materialism is fundamental to fashion's meaning. In an era that several pundits have declaimed as one of post-fashion amorality, Lehmann's provocative polemic may well prove a fundamental and corrective text for shaping and interpreting a post-fashion future.-- ""Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland"""