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What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from which Mike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of the artist's writings. The first volume, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings about other artists; this collection concentrates on Kelley's own work, ranging from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for performance pieces to expository critical and autobiographical writings.
Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. "Statements" consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic High Points," an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms--approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. "Video Statements and Proposals" are introductions to videos made by Kelley and other artists, including Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" offers writings that accompany or are part of artworks and installations. This section includes "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a collage of appropriated texts. "Architecture" features an discussion of Kelley's Educational Complex (1995) and an interview in which he reflects on the role of architecture in his work. Finally, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of space as manifested by UFO sightings and abduction scenarios.
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Fashion Theory, Volume 10, Issues 1 & 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture - Vogue Special Issue (Fashion Theory)
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Fashion Theory provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. It provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art, history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology. It is multi-disciplinary, features international coverage and is heavily illustrated.
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Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
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The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. By contrast, the study of dress has, until recently, suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing. Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of ‘fashion’ as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.
Fashion Theory provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology.
Dorothy Ko: 'Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory'
Irene V. Guenther: 'Nazi 'Chic'?: German Politics and Women's Fashions, 1915-1945'
Barbara Vinken: 'Eternity: A Frill on the Dress'
Patrizia Calefato: 'Fashion and Worldliness: Language and Imagery of the Clothed Body'
Richard Martin: 'A Charismatic Art: The Balance of Ingratiation and Outrage in Contemporary Fashion'
Valerie Steele: Exhibition Review: 'Two by Two', The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. All articles have solid theoretical underpinnings and are based on original research.
Indexed by the IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Sciences); the DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index); ARTbibliographies Modern; Abstracts in Anthropology; the Anthropological Index Online (AIO) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Sociological abstracts; ISI Web of Science/Arts & Humanities Citation Index and ISI Current Contents Connect/Arts & Humanities (THOMSON); K.G. Saur Verlag's IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature and Social Sciences) and K.G. Verlag's IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on Humanities and Social Sciences)
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Fashion Theory: Volume 1, Issue 2: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
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Masculinities Special Issue
The overwhelming majority of books and articles on fashion focus on women. But of course men get dressed too. The prevailing stereotype is that women spend more time thinking about and buying clothes, but not only do the essays in this stimulating issue overturn this stereotype -- they also show that, historically at least, men’s clothes were of paramount importance to their self-presentation, particularly with respect to sexual identity.
Peter McNeil: Macaroni Masculinities
Fiona Anderson: Fashioning the Gentleman: A Study of Henry Poole and Co., Saville Row Tailors 1861-1900
Laura Ugolini: Clothes and he Modern Man in 1930s Oxford
Becky Conekin: Fashioning the Playboy: Messages of Style and Masculinity in the Pages of Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963
Ulrich Lehmann: Language of the Pursuit: Cary Grant’s Clothes in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’
Alistair O’Neill: John Stephen: A Carnaby Street Presentation of Masculinity 1957-1975
Valerie Steele: Book Review: The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, fashion and city life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward
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Fashion Theory: Volume 6, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
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Special Issue on Fashion and Photography
Looking American: Louise Dahl-Wolfe’s Fashion Photographs of the 1930s and 1940s
Considers the influential fashion photography of Louise Dahl-Wolfe in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and how it evoked myths of America.
Rebecca Arnold (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design)
The Politics of the First: The Emergence of the Black Model in the Civil Rights Era
Janice M. Cheddie (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
On the Turn: Millenial Bodies and the Meaning of Time in Andrea Giacobbe’s Fashion Photography
Traces the influence of new media, including digital photography, upon the world of fashion photography and its impact on how the world is depicted and conceived.
Paul Jobling (University of Brighton)
Bloody Jumpers: Benetton and the Mechanics of Cultural Exclusion
Explores Bennetton’s controversial ‘Shock of Reality’ campaign including AIDS/HIV ads, during the early 1990s.
Paul Antick (University of Middlesex)
“Put in Just for Pictures”: Fashion Editorial and the Composite Image in Nova, 1965-1975
A timely look at the treatment of fashion within the recently re-launched Nova magazine and its relationship with the original version.
Alice Beard (Kingston University)
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Fashion Theory: Volume 7, Issue 1: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture (Fashion Theory)
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Casanova and Mlle Clairon: Painting the Face in and Age of Natural Beauty
Morag Martin, University of Warwick
Tehran Chic
Alec Balasescu
Decorated Men
Alison Matthews David, University of Southampton
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The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established. By contrast, the study of dress has traditionally suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Fashion Theory takes as its starting point a definition of fashion as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. It provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising. Fashion Theory provides a vital contribution to cultural studies, art, history, literary criticism, anthropology, fashion history, media studies, gender studies, folklore studies and sociology. It is multi-disciplinary, features international coverage and is heavily illustrated.
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I found this and hoped for something that it was not.......2007-06-15
Now, I'm not going to hold the fact that I did not read carefully against the book - that's my fault, not the book's.
I was hoping for something a bit more serious, like Millar's "Red Son" in which Superman is raised in the USSR rather than in the USA.
But, this book is a tongue-in-cheek take on Superman, based on the premise that he landed in Kent in England, rather than Kansas, USA. Co-written by Monty Python contributers (it doesn't seem quite right to call John Cleese a mere contributor), this is an irreverant look at English culture, government and media - Superman is merely the medium used to deliver these scathing attacks.
A lot of the book deals with how normal people react to someone with super powers. Unfortunately, much of this ground was covered by Pixar's "The Incredibles" (both "The Incredibles" and "True Brit" were released in 2004) and even, to a lesser (and darker) extent by Frank Miller's first Dark Knight series.
The real lesson in this book is that good parents are very important. Superman's English parents can't hold a candle to Superman's traditional American parents.
The art of this one is a real strength - it reminded me very much of the vivid, clean lines of the Superman comics that I read when I was a kid.
So, mixed scores: Strong art, the Superman story is sacrificed for the jokes, but they are good jokes, no new ground covered when it comes to regular people's reactions to Super Heroes...
This one gets a C+ from me.
Incredibly Disappointing.......2006-07-24
Wow, I cannot believe how boring I found this book. While I did enjoy the artwork, the writing is just dull, flat, lifeless. I expected soooo much more from the man who wrote Faulty Towers. Not for Superman fans, not for Cleese fans, not for anyone, really.
Is this the best they could do?.......2006-05-01
DC takes an interesting premise and throws all its potential out the window with SUPERMAN: TRUE BRIT, an original graphic novel that asks the question, what if Kal-El's rocket landed in England instead of the USA? This is not a serious Elseworlds tale by any means, but rather a bunch of gags drug out over 96 pages. Writer Kim Johnson presents the reader with a question: in a reserved, uptight British society, how would a godlike character like Superman fit in? To answer that question, all Britons are unfortunately portrayed as bumbling, conservative stereotypes who have no place in their lives for someone whose superior abilities make him stand out from the crowd. Monty Python's John Cleese provides a writing assist, but it's mainly to inject some Pythonesque humor, the result being inside jokes that non-Python fans will miss. And one of the more unfortunate parts is how this Superman story just HAS to give a nod to Batman, and there's an awful lot of effort required to build up to a relatively small appearance. It's almost like they came up with the Batman angle first and then built the Superman story around it. Well, the story is about Superman, so why not focus on him and let the stupid Batman jokes fall by the wayside?
But as bad as the story is, it is accompanied by the best John Byrne art I've seen in years - probably because it was inked by Mark Farmer, who provides a very polished finish to Byrne's normally "scratchy" pencils. Superman's costume is a nice change as well, incorporating the Union Jack and a collar into the standard togs that he's worn for almost 70 years. I would have preferred it if DC had let Byrne write this one, as he would probably have provided a more serious and interesting take on an English Superman than what we have here. So this book gets a big thumbs down, and this comes from both a Superman fan and a Monty Python fan.
Disappointed.......2006-02-25
With art by John Byrne and John Cleese on the writing staff, this should have been one of the greatest Elsewhere novels of all time. I could not have been more disappointed. Aside from a few cheesy jokes, I was literally bored reading this. Save your money, folks, unless you're a diehard John Byrne fan who's out to collect everything he's ever done.
Amusing, but..........2004-12-27
While this book certainly has its moments, I was expecting something funnier. The artwork is standard John Byrne, which means it's good. The story seems to try to strike some balance between being a straight Superman story and being a comedy. In my opinion, it would have been better to go strictly for laughs. A couple of scenes had me on the floor--young Colin milking the cows, for one--but there weren't enough of those. Too many of the silly ideas (Superman attempting to help the National Health Service shorten the waiting time for hip surgery) were followed by realisticly somber consequences (a rash of infections in the patients Superman helped with).
Python fans will appreciate the many references scattered throughout the book (e.g. a car containing two of the Rutles about to plunge out of an upper story of the Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris Car Park).
All in all, it seems to be more a satire on British society than the rip-roaring laugh-fest I wanted it to be. I'm afraid it's neither serious enough or silly enough for me--a testament, perhaps, to my American distance from the British mindset.
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Flush those boring old gifts and give your friends and family something they can really sit down and digest! The Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series is one of the longest-running, most popular humor collections in the publishing industry. It taps into a vast resource of forgotten readers -- the 66 percent of North Americans who admit to reading in the bathroom. It's our 15th year and we're still going strong!
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Looks Good.......2007-01-10
For a used book, it was in perfect condition. Great value for my money.
My shelf grows with another addition.......2006-01-21
The Bathroom Readers are, as always, fun and informative. I find myself using the factoids as conversation-starters and, like one reader mentioned in a prior edition, have won radio contests because of something I learned in the books.
The reason I am writing a review on this particular edition is a page entitled Tendjewberrymud. I laughed so hard tears were squirting helplessly from my eyes; read it again and laughed harder. That single page alone was worth the entire price of the book....and I'm far from done with this one or any of the well-thumbed others that line the shelf I have devoted exclsively to Bathroom Readers.
Great books.......2005-07-09
As others have said, this is a perfect book! No more reading from old magazines, newspapers, or the label of your shampoo (just kidding). I'm so glad that my mom bought this for me, they're great. Even if you just don't want to read them in the bathroom!
More info than a person should know!.......2004-02-06
I got this book for Christmas and have literally made unnecessary trips to the restroom just to read some more. It is filled with thousands of pieces of useful and not-so-useful information. For example, did you know that a penny, because of the extra weight on "heads" will come up "heads" just a little more often than "tails"? Some of Cliff Claven's best quotes from Cheers? That the first videogame was created in 1958? How about the legend of Lincoln's ghost at the Whitehouse? There are also articles on the JFK and Priness Diana conspiracies as well. The author is good at not preaching or putting in his own opinions and the info covers the entire gamut from politics, to true crime, funny stories, strange facts and everything else.
OK, time to end this review and get back to reading more of this book. Alright, one more fact, Did you know that until 1965 pennies were legal tender only up to 25cents? A creditor did not have to accepts more than 25 pennies or more than $10 in coins? Crazy huh?
One of the best books I have ever read!.......2004-01-17
After receiving this as a Christmas gift, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. People always fidget around in the bathroom to find reading material while doing their business, and the idea of a Bathroom Reader...a book specifically written for everyone (because we all gotta use the john at some point, right?)...is very novel (no pun intended)! So, there I was staring at this book, my newest Christmas present, and I was truly awaiting my next visit to the throne, just to see what the book was all about. The first chance I got in the bathroom, I opened the book, read a few pages and was instantly hooked! Believe me when I say this book has it ALL! Short stories (and interesting ones at that!), jokes, trivia, wordplay, brainteasers, and so much more! Many of the facts are useful, and some of the facts may seem meaningless, but in truth, they are quite interesting! I guarantee this book has something that pertains to everyone!
As the title of this review states, this is one of the best books I have read. So, what are the other best books I have read? Why, the other Uncle John's Bathroom Readers, of course! Buy them, you will not be disappointed! I never thought I would say this, but these Bathroom Readers make doing #2 my #1 priority!
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The Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series is the longest-running, most popular series of its kind, with more than 22 editions in print and over 4 million sold. This is our third installation of our miniature Readers, another engaging anthology packed with fun facts, amusing stories, and enough trivia to fuel a television game show, all in a condensed, portable form. With toilet paper roll charm attached.
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- Perceiving the Arts: An Introduction to the Humanities (8th Edition)
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