9780857854445

Cool Shades

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780857854445

Hardcover|9780857854445


Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9780857854445

ISBN-10

0857854445

Weight

0.99 Pounds

Dimensions

6.14 x 0.50 x 9.21 In

List Price

$135.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

192 pages

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published On

2014-12-18



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