Hair

An Illustrated History

Susan J. Vincent (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-0-85785-171-0 (ISBN)

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Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it.

Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex.

Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.

Susan J. Vincent is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York, UK.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Hair matters
1. Care for your hair
2. From servant to stylist
3. The art of being hairless
4. The practice of being hairy
5. The politics of appearance
5. Social challenge: the long and the short of it
Conclusion: Histories and hair stories

Endnotes
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Elements of Dress
Zusatzinfo	153 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-85785-171-3 / 0857851713
ISBN-13	978-0-85785-171-0 / 9780857851710
Zustand	Neuware