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Bloomsbury Academic Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses

Name: Cool Shades: The History and Meaning of Sunglasses
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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Product Description Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity. Cool Shades will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple. Review "Brown delivers a fascinating explication of an iconic fashion accoutrement: sunglasses. She discusses how they have served as a popular cultural signifier, particularly since the 1920s, and explains their purportedly 'cool' quality ... This short but insightful volume explores the influence of urban developments, the early turn to goggles and then eventually to Ray-Ban aviators, and the ultimate evolution of 'modern cool.' ... According to Brown, sunglasses also were linked with African Americans, the femme fatale, white hipsters, the Beats, and late modernity ... Likening shades to Breton's top hat and Robinson's bowler, Brown offers that they stand as 'the ultimate symbol of the age.' A thoroughly intriguing account. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." --R. C. Cottrell, California State University, Chico, CHOICE "[Author] Brown has contributed a thorough and probing look at how these everyday items tell a rich and meaningful story about the culture that invented, popularized and continues to rely deeply upon them." - Fashion, Society & Popular Culture About the Author Vanessa Brown is Senior Lecturer in Design and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and has led modules in commerce, culture and design, postmodernism in art and design, as well as final year research projects.

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0857854445
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Fashion > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2014
Listed Since: 01 September 2012

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