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Title
Tartan / Jonathan Faiers.
Author
Faiers, Jonathan.
Edition
English ed.
ISBN
9781845203771
1845203771
1845203771
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
Language
English
Description
326 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Call Number
TS1629 .F35 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
677/.022
Summary
"Tartan has colonized the world. The flexibility of its design and the traditionalism of its symbolism - as well as the travels of the Scots - have taken the fabric around the globe." "Traditionally the visual sign of clanship and district, tartan was popularized outside Scotland by the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement. Hollywood has continued to sustain the romantic fictions of tartan from Brigadoon to Braveheart. At the same time, designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen have deliberately subverted the traditional and historical associations of the fabric, as have contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney. Post-punk, tartan now turns up in the most surprising places, influencing the conceptual clothing of a generation of Japanese designers such as Junya Watanabe and Jun Takahashi, the stage costumes of Outkast's Andre 3000 and contemporary interior design." "Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about this most radical and most traditional of fabrics."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
"Published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum"--T.p. verso
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Corporate Author
Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Tartan and history. Technical construction: sett, weave colour ; Early appearances ; Fragments and fabrication
Part II: Tartan and dress. Transforming tartan ; Regulation tartan ; Erogenous zones ; Tartan toffs
Part III: Tartan's embrace. Balmoralization ; Tartan, the grid and modernity ; Supernatural tartan ; Colonization ; Tartan's translation.
Part II: Tartan and dress. Transforming tartan ; Regulation tartan ; Erogenous zones ; Tartan toffs
Part III: Tartan's embrace. Balmoralization ; Tartan, the grid and modernity ; Supernatural tartan ; Colonization ; Tartan's translation.