On the Button
eBook - PDF

On the Button

The Significance of an Ordinary Item

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

On the Button

The Significance of an Ordinary Item

About this book

What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great aesthetic movements. It's Eurocentric, and is found all over the world. On the Button is an inventive and unusual exploration of the cultural history of the button, illustrated with a multiplicity of buttons in black and white and colour. It tells tales of a huge variety of the button's forms and functions, its sometimes uncompromising glamour, its stronghold in fashion and literature, its place in the visual arts, its association with crime and death, its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories. On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781848855847
eBook ISBN
9780857720924
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  4. LIST OF PLATES
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. One. As a Notion
  8. Two. Why We Collect
  9. Three. The Enlightenment Button
  10. Four. Gentlemen Prefer Buttons
  11. Five. Commerce and Cuteness
  12. Six. War and Grief
  13. Seven. Culture and Creed
  14. Eight. Sex, Love and Buttons
  15. Nine. Arts and Crafts
  16. Ten. Dash My Buttons!
  17. NOTES
  18. GLOSSARY
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  20. INDEX