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On the Button - The Significance of an Ordinary Item (Hardcover)
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On the Button - The Significance of an Ordinary Item (Hardcover)
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What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and
beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be
able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully
protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections
or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and
repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great
aesthetic movements. It's Eurocentric, and is found all over the
world. On the Button is an inventive and unusual exploration of the
cultural history of the button, illustrated with a multiplicity of
buttons in black and white and colour. It tells tales of a huge
variety of the button's forms and functions, its sometimes
uncompromising glamour, its stronghold in fashion and literature,
its place in the visual arts, its association with crime and death,
its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been
works addressed to the button collector and general cultural
histories. On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so
attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight.
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