| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
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 color. 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, and its tender call to nostalgia and the sentimental. There have been works addressed to the button collector and general cultural histories, but On the Button links the two, revealing why we are so attracted to buttons, and how they punch way above their weight. It is illustrated with a multiplicity of buttons. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index. |
| Contents |
As a notion -- Why we collect -- The enlightenment button -- Gentlemen prefer buttons -- Commerce and cuteness -- War and grief -- Culture and creed -- Sex, love and buttons -- Arts and crafts -- Dash my buttons! |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
| Subject |
Buttons.
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Buttons. |
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Fasteners.
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Fasteners. |
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edwards, Nina. On the button. London ; New York: I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9781848855847 (OCoLC)751663778 |
| ISBN |
9780857720924 (electronic book) |
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0857720929 (electronic book) |
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9780857730121 (electronic book) |
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0857730126 (electronic book) |
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9781848855847 (hardback) |
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1848855842 (hardback) |
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