Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Love Objects Emotion Design And Material Culture - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 in 1920s Ireland.
Title: Love Objects Emotion Design And Material Culture
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781472517197
Pages: 186 Pages, 52 B/W Illus
Publication Date: 10/23/2014
Category: Material Culture