Wild Things : The Material Culture of Everyday Life Paperback / softback
by Judy Attfield
Part of the Radical Thinkers in Design series
Paperback / softback
Description
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds?
Has the quest for ‘the real thing’ become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us?
This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations.
The act of consumption is only the starting point of object’s “lives”.
Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are.
Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to ‘clutter’, the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity.
Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781350070714
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:17/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350070714
