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  • Glasses

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Glasses are among the oldest and most commonplace prosthetics we have invented. But what does it mean to wear glasses? There is more to the answer than correcting vision. Glasses alter, enhance, and shield the way that we view the world, and the way the world sees us.Everyone has encounters ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Georg Lukács Reinvented

    Realism in Contemporary Culture

    by Adam Geczy ...
    The first study to make use of Lukàcs's theory of realism to understand contemporary cultural phenomena more broadly and in the fields of art and television in particular.Adam Geczy focuses on contemporary cultural trends and problems to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Georg Lukács' philosophy. The Marxist critic Lukács wrote in defence of realism in art, and especially in literature. ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Flixcomix

    Comics Aesthetics in Film

    by Adam Geczy, Jonathan McBurnie ...
    Flixcomix: Comics Aesthetics in Film reorients the longstanding conversation between comics and cinema by examining film through the lens of comics studies. Rather than relying on film theory to define comics, Adam Geczy and Jonathan McBurnie flip the script—showing how comics’ visual language, timing, and expression have shaped film aesthetics from the silent era to the blockbuster age.While ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Phenomenology of Paint

    Between Materiality and Illusion

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Series series Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
    Analyzing the different modes of appearance and application of the most ubiquitous medium in art and ritual, this book examines the aesthetics, anthropology, ethnography and history of paint. The result is a clearly articulated account of both the materiality and phenomenology of paint, as substance and idea.Beginning with paint as ritual in prehistoric and ancient times, it discusses the ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Yves Saint Laurent

    by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    Series Book 1 - Fashion Auteurs
    The enduring influence of Saint Laurent’s designs in modern fashion is undeniable. Concepts introduced by Saint Laurent, like the tuxedo jacket for women and the sheer blouse and dress, have become staples in contemporary fashion, transcending their origins to become symbols of power, elegance and sexuality. His ability to anticipate and articulate the needs and desires of the modern woman has ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Litcomix

    Literary Theory and the Graphic Novel

    by Adam Geczy, Jonathan McBurnie ...
    Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Yet, as graphic novels from Maus to Watchmen haveentered the literary canon, perhaps the time has come to develop theories for interpreting and evaluating graphic novels that are drawn from classic models of literary theory and criticism.Using the methodology of Georg Lukács and his ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions

    by Adam Geczy ...
    What is the position of art in contemporary culture, where it is threatened by an ever-greater diversity of media, discourses, practices, genres and forms? Contemporary Art and Other Obstructions sets out to answer this through exploring art and social agency, communication, the problem of Biennales and other major events, and the shadow of postcolonialism as it hangs over art and indigeneity ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art

    Marionettes, Models and Mannequins

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of these bodies, from antiquity to the present day, to explore how we seek out echoes, caricatures and replications of ourselves in order to make sense of the complex world in which we live.Packed with case ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film

    Inventions of Identity

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and exchange between cultures.While the familiar orientalisms persist, transorientalism is a term that covers notions like the adoption of a hat from a different country for Turkish nationalist dress, the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Fashion and Orientalism

    Dress, Textiles and Culture from the 17th to the 21st Century

    by Adam Geczy ...
    Orientalism is a central factor within the fashion system, both subtle and overt. In this groundbreaking book, the author shows the extent of the influence that the Orient had, and continues to have, on fashion.Our concept of Western fashion is unthinkable without it, whether in terms of the growth of the cotton industry or of garments we take for granted, such as the dressing gown. From pre ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Queer Style

    Revised and Updated Edition

    by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual identity, and remains key reading for scholars and students across fashion studies and the humanities more broadly. Now, 10 years later, the authors have revisited their classic work and updated it to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Fashionable Art

    by Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner ...
    Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of VirginiaOwing to digitization, globalization and mass culture, what is deemed 'desirable' and 'of the moment' in art has increasingly followed the patterns of fashion. While in the past artistic styles were always inflected with signs of their modernity, today biennales and art markets are defined by the next big thing, the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD