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Material Memories - Design and Evocation (Hardcover, Revised)
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Material Memories - Design and Evocation (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Materializing Culture
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This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the
memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the
meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the
process of evocation it finds an open and continuing dialogue
between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not,
however, to diminish the role of design in shaping human
consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank
carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas, but
rather, place crucial importance on the precise materials from
which they are made, their social, economic and historic reasons
for being, and the way that we interact with them through our
senses. This book therefore studies the physical within the
intellectual, directly testing the concept of material culture.With
telling illustrations, and spanning the Renaissance to the present
day, leading scholars converge across disciplines to explore the
souvenir-value of jewellery, textiles, the home, the urban space,
modernist design, photography, the museum and even the sunken
wreck. Together they show how the sense of the past and of history,
far from being a 'radical illusion' as some post-modernists claim,
has been a deeply felt reality.
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