Rebecca Shawcross

Shoes

An Illustrated History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shoes have always been more than just a necessity: they reveal the culture of the times in which they were worn the sexual morals, the social power play, as well as the endless shifting of fashion. This definitive guide to footwear is lavishly illustrated with shoes from all over the world, and tells the extraordinary story of this ultimate object of desire, from antiquity to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade / Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 565409
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 249mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1476g
• ISBN-13: 9781350266476
• ISBN-10: 1350266477
• Artikelnr.: 63747477

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Shawcross is Senior Shoe Curator at The Shoe Collection, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The First Shoes
2. From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
3. European Renaissance
4. Towards the Age Of Reason
5. Return to Simplicity
6. Mechanization of the Industry
7. The Turn of the Twentieth Century
8. Austerity Years
9. A New Era
10. 1980s to the Millennium
11. New century to the Present
Places to Visit
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements