Artemis Yagou

Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040110669
• Artikelnr.: 72273064

Autorenporträt

Artemis Yagou (PhD) is a historian of design and technology. She is Associate at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum (Munich). Her main interests are Greek material culture (18th-21st centuries), the cultural history of technology, horology, and construction toys. Her previous publications include Fragile Innovation: Episodes in Greek Design History (2011) and the edited volume Technology, Novelty, and Luxury (2022). Her personal website is www.yagou.gr

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. A printed book from Venice: Reading and imagining 2. A wine
jug from Pesaro: Drinking and connecting 3. A religious embroidery from
Vienna: Believing and expressing 4. A pocket watch from England: Telling
the time and experimenting 5. Creating new horizons