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| Author | : Zara Anishanslin |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2016-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0300197055 |
16. 1763: Unraveling Empire -- Coda: 1791 -- Note on Sources and Methodology -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
| Author | : Gail Tsukiyama |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429952296 |
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
| Author | : Zara Anishanslin Bernhardt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Material culture in art |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Zara Anishanslin Bernhardt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 874 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Material culture in art |
| ISBN | : |
This dissertation explores the many hidden histories revealed by a single resonant object: a 1746 portrait of a woman in a silk dress. In this portrait, New England artist Robert Feke portrays Philadelphian Anne Shippen Willing wearing a Spitalfields flowered silk, a fabric woven in London by Huguenot Simon Julins after a pattern by English silk designer Anna Maria Garthwaite. Each chapter of my dissertation considers one of these four creators of this object (designer, client, weaver, and painter) and discusses transatlantic networks linked to them in the time (1688 to 1791) and space of their collective lives. Ranging from Philadelphia, London, and Newport, to Lincolnshire, Boston, and Bermuda, my work challenges scholarly models that privilege metropole over colony as it alternates between metropolitan and colonial perspectives of production, consumption, and use. Analysis of architectural spaces, decorative arts, and cultural landscapes as well as textiles, silk designs, and portraits--all tied together through this single portrait--reveals that the makers and users of these objects and images fashioned and displayed ideologies, from the personal to the political, through their material world. My work contributes to scholarship on the consumer revolution by revealing the emotive, ideological power objects hold beyond consumer behaviorism or emulative refinement. In particular, this portrait of a colonial merchant's wife wearing a flowered silk dress highlights how people in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World produced, used and consumed aesthetic representations of nature to express cultural fascinations, map changes in their landscapes, perform colonial merchant identity, fashion revolutionary political economy, and imagine America as an imperial New Eden. This single object reveals the importance of nature and landscape for creole and merchant identity formation, particularly how classical republicanism manifested materially and people used aesthetic commodities to wrestle with issues of commerce, consumption, and virtue in the British Atlantic World.
| Author | : Junichi Saga |
| Publisher | : Kodansha Amer Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780870119880 |
Over 50 reminiscences of pre-modern Japan. This book presents an illustrationf a way of life that has virtually disappeared.
| Author | : Kelli Estes |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2015-07-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1492608343 |
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, highlighting the power of our own stories. The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien, the lone survivor of a cruel purge of the Chinese in Seattle found refuge on Orcas Island and shared her tragic experience by embroidering it. As Inara peels back layer upon layer of the centuries of secrets the sleeve holds, her life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core—and force her to make an impossible choice. Should she bring shame to her family and risk everything by telling the truth, or tell no one and dishonor Mei Lien's memory? A touching and tender book for fans of Marie Benedict, Susanna Kearsley, and Duncan Jepson, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk is a dual-time period novel that explores how a delicate piece of silk interweaves the past and the present, reminding us that today's actions have far reaching implications. Praise for The Girl Who Wrote in Silk: "A beautiful, elegiac novel, as finely and delicately woven as the title suggests. Kelli Estes spins a spellbinding tale that illuminates the past in all its brutality and beauty, and the humanity that binds us all together." —Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Ball "A touching and tender story about discovering the past to bring peace to the present." —Duncan Jepson, author of All the Flowers in Shanghai "Vibrant and tragic, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk explores a horrific, little-known era in our nation's history. Estes sensitively alternates between Mei Lien, a young Chinese-American girl who lived in the late 1800s, and Inara, a modern recent college grad who sets Mei Lien's story free." —Margaret Dilloway, author of How to Be an American Housewife and Sisters of Heart and Snow
| Author | : Agnes Smedley |
| Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780912670447 |
Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 until 1941. Her journalism and fiction capture the massacre of short-haired feminists in the Canton commune, the lives of silk workers of Canton charged with being lesbians, and the story of Mother Tsai, a peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. The Village Voice praised the volume for having "captured brilliantly... the forces of the old and new China struggling in each person she describes."
| Author | : Alessandro Baricco |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2008-12-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307490955 |
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.
| Author | : Ulinka Rublack |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2021-02-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1474249906 |
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.
| Author | : Rachel Lyon |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2024-09-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 139853336X |
Rachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it. Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success. ‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A sparkling debut’ New York Times Book Review
