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Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers Peter McNeil
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- Release Year
- 2011
- ISBN
- 9780857850386
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
0857850385
ISBN-13
9780857850386
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109342763
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shoes : a History from Sandals to Sneakers
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Fashion & Accessories, Social History, Popular Culture
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
52 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Anyone who has ever spent the rent on a pair of impossibly high stilettos, has bought shoes that don't fit, or owns shoes they have never worn, will want to get their hands on this beautiful coffee-table tome., All them [the contributors] are engagingly passionate about their particular footwear niche. ... Erotic Connections are everywhere in this book. ... Hardly a stone is left unturned - or unillustrated - in this department., Charting their history, 'Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, takes a peak at some of the best. Stilettos, wellies, sneakers and boots - they're all included and put in their cultural, historical, political and social contexts, each foot fashion is explained in detail alongside beautifully executed illustrations and photographs., [The work] exemplifies the capacity to integrate historical enquiry, empirical investigation, hermeneutical theorizing, and a sense of delight in scholarship, The book tells not only of the history of the shoe industry, but also its cultural significance. 210 colour illustrations and expert authors make this a "coffee table book" of the highest calibre., 'Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers' is footwear for thought. This lavishly illustrated collection of essays presents a global history of the humble (and not so humble) shoe as a symbol of style, status, sexuality and desire, from ancient times to the present day., [The work] xemplifies the capacity to integrate historical enquiry, empirical investigation, hermeneutical theorizing, and a sense of delight in scholarship, At last a work that deals not only with the history of footwear, but also with its cultural significance. This volume helps transform the shoe from a mundane object of everyday use into something of great social and psychological power., [Shoes] is lavishly ... illustrated, and the pages of text are colour-coordinated with the pics, as good accessories should be., All of them [the contributors] are engagingly passionate about their particular footwear niche. ... Erotic Connections are everywhere in this book. ... Hardly a stone is left unturned - or unillustrated - in this department., With hundreds of stunning photographs, Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers traces the importance of just about every kind of footwear to reveal how fashion has changed over the years., If you have ever wondered why women are forever in search of, consumed by, in love with, transformed by 'The Perfect Shoe': wonder no longer. Simply read this history of shoes. Then go out and buy some more., 'Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers' is footwear fof thought. This lavishly illustrated collection of essays presents a global history of the humble (and not-so-humble) shoe as a symbol of style, status, sexuality and desire, from ancient times to the present day., ... moves the shoe definitively from the margins of 'accessory' to the centre of fashion. Long gone are the days of 'having the shoes to match the bag'; this coherent survey of the shoe in all its aspects - historical, cultural and global - reveals footwear as a key to the vicissitudes of fashion and iconic in itself.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
391.4/13
Synopsis
The new paperback edition of this bestselling history of shoes in fabulous full colour. As covetable as a pair of Jimmy Choos!, What do your shoes say about you'..Shoes are now much more than just things to walk in. From kids on the block to models on the catwalk, we use them to signal how fashionable we are. But, beyond style, this most intimate object communicates much more.our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. And, before they became supreme objects of desire, shoes had a history. From ancient times to the present, shoes have had a cultural as well as a practical purpose...Within these pages is pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about shoes - the tiny crushing shoes of China, the infamous chopine with its 23-inch heel, how dandies made men's shoes beautiful in the eighteenth century, and how the powers of conservatism made them dull again, war and the wellington boot, sex and the high heel, the codes of the 'gay shoe', shoes in fairytales and in art, the irresistible rise of the sneaker, and the cult of shoe designers..., From practical wardrobe accessories to objects of desire, this book is a stunning visual and fascinating historical reference exploring every aspect of shoes. From ancient times to the present, shoes have been so much more than things to walk in. We use them to signal how fashionable we are, but beyond style, shoes can communicate our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status, and personality. Within the pages of this lavishly illustrated book, you'll find the cultural mixed with the practical as the story of shoes unfolds from the foot-binding shoes of China to the infamous twenty-three-inch chopine platform shoe to the mens' shoes worn by dandies of the eighteenth century to the move toward conservatism that brought the Wellington boot to the irresistible sex appeal of the high heel to the cult rise of the sneaker. "Shoes" is a revealing, insightful, and beautifully presented fashion history collection., What do your shoes say about you? Shoes are now much more than just things to walk in. From kids on the block to models on the catwalk, we use them to signal how fashionable we are. But, beyond style, this most intimate object communicates much more...our sexual desires, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. And, before they became supreme objects of desire, shoes had a history. From ancient times to the present, shoes have had a cultural as well as a practical purpose. Within these pages is pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about shoes - the tiny crushing shoes of China, the infamous chopine with its 23-inch heel, how dandies made men's shoes beautiful in the eighteenth century, and how the powers of conservatism made them dull again, war and the wellington boot, sex and the high heel, the codes of the 'gay shoe', shoes in fairytales and in art, the irresistible rise of the sneaker, and the cult of shoe designers.
LC Classification Number
GT2130
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