Material culture books

A consumer history of Italy from unification in the 19th century to the present day, combining economic and cultural...  Read More >>

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This is the first comprehensive collection of essays on Irish design and visual culture which draws from interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Art and the City explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles....  Read More >>

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded...  Read More >>

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded...  Read More >>

Exploring the materiality of digital devices through electronic waste  Read More >>

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition opening at the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Feb. 2011.  Read More >>

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A radical reconsideration of the meaning of freedom and morality in the modern world.  Read More >>

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Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview...  Read More >>

An exploration of 'Junk' that focuses on art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious...  Read More >>

What does material culture do for the mind? How is human thought built into and executed through things? It is now...  Read More >>

An exploration of 'Junk' that focuses on art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious...  Read More >>

Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American...  Read More >>

In her latest book, Gillian Howie offers a bold new way to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory...  Read More >>

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