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Author: Barbara Herman
Publisher: Lyons Press
Release: 2013-11-05
ISBN: 9780762784387
Size: 63.65 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Scent And Subversion

by Barbara Herman, Scent And Subversion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Scent And Subversion books, Let Scent and Subversion take you for a whiff on the wild side of 20th century perfume. Perfume has been -- and continues to be -- subversive. By playing with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities, 20th-century perfume broke free from the assumptions of the prior century, and became a largely unrecognized part of the social and style revolutions of the modern era. In Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, Barbara Herman continues her irreverent, poetic, and often humorous analysis of vintage perfumes and perfume ads that she began on her popular blog YesterdaysPerfume.com. The book features descriptions of over 300 perfumes, starting with Fougère Royale (1882) and ending with Demeter's Laundromat (2000). Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 vintage perfume ads, it will also regale you with essays on scent appreciation, a glossary of important perfume terms and ingredients, and tips on how to begin your own foray into vintage and contemporary perfume. Herman also looks to the future through interviews with scent visionaries such as odor expert and "professional provocateur" Sissel Tolaas, punk perfumer Antoine Lie, and Martynka Wawrzyniak, the artist behind "Smell Me," the world's first olfactory self-portrait. The perfect book for perfume aficionados (aka "perfumistas") as well as connoisseurs of modern fashion and design, feminist and LGBTQ historians, and fans of vintage advertising.

Author: Barbara Herman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release: 2013-11-05
ISBN: 1493002023
Size: 78.30 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Scent And Subversion

by Barbara Herman, Scent And Subversion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Scent And Subversion books, An intriguing look at vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with stunning period advertisements throughout.

Author: Mandy Aftel
Publisher:
Release: 2004
ISBN: 9783352006548
Size: 36.92 MB
Format: PDF
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 239
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Die Kunst Der Alchimisten

by Mandy Aftel, Die Kunst Der Alchimisten Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Die Kunst Der Alchimisten books,

Author: Catherine Maxwell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release: 2017-10-11
ISBN: 0191005207
Size: 72.73 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Scents And Sensibility

by Catherine Maxwell, Scents And Sensibility Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Scents And Sensibility books, This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. Concentrating on aesthetic and decadent authors, Scents and Sensibility introduces a rich selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility. A key theme is the emergence of the olfactif, the cultivated individual with a refined sense of smell, influentially represented by the poet and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne, who is emulated by a host of canonical and less well-known aesthetic and decadent successors such as Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, John Addington Symonds, Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Field, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Mark André Raffalovich, Theodore Wratislaw, and A. Mary F. Robinson. This book explores how scent and perfume pervade the work of these authors in many different ways, signifying such diverse things as style, atmosphere, influence, sexuality, sensibility, spirituality, refinement, individuality, the expression of love and poetic creativity, and the aura of personality, dandyism, modernity, and memory. A coda explores the contrasting twentieth-century responses of Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie to the scent of Victorian literature.

Author: Dorothy P. Abram
Publisher: Singing Dragon
Release: 2017-06-21
ISBN: 0857013076
Size: 70.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Seven Scents

by Dorothy P. Abram, Seven Scents Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Seven Scents books, Identifying seven aromatic plants with specific psychoactive properties, the author describes the different states of consciousness that are achieved, manipulated, and transformed by the people and cultures that use them in specialized ways, both in the past and in the contemporary world. Focusing on the role that scent plays in healing and spiritual experience, the author explores the use of the fragrant tulsi plant both in Hindu women's ritual and to treat mental and physical ailments. She analyses the appearance of the lotus in sacred Egyptian customs, and as a model of the process of psychological change through metaphorical journeys, as witnessed in shamanic practice and its relation to the Biblical book of Job. Making a significant contribution to the understanding of the healing state, the book is stimulating reading for all those who work with and are interested in aromatics, the sense of smell, or the nature of spiritual experience.

Author: Gregory P. A. Levine
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release: 2017-09-30
ISBN: 0824858085
Size: 52.11 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Long Strange Journey

by Gregory P. A. Levine, Long Strange Journey Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Long Strange Journey books, Long Strange Journey presents the first critical analysis of visual objects and discourses that animate Zen art modernism and its legacies, with particular emphasis on the postwar “Zen boom.” Since the late nineteenth century, Zen and Zen art have emerged as globally familiar terms associated with a spectrum of practices, beliefs, works of visual art, aesthetic concepts, commercial products, and modes of self-fashioning. They have also been at the center of fiery public disputes that have erupted along national, denominational, racial-ethnic, class, and intellectual lines. Neither stable nor strictly a matter of euphoric religious or intercultural exchange, Zen and Zen art are best approached as productive predicaments in the study of religion, spirituality, art, and consumer culture, especially within the frame of Buddhist modernism. Long Strange Journey’s modern-contemporary emphasis sets it off from most writing on Zen art, which focuses on masterworks by premodern Chinese and Japanese artists, gushes over “timeless” visual qualities as indicative of metaphysical states, or promotes with ahistorical, trend-spotting flair Zen art’s design appeal and therapeutic values. In contrast, the present work plots a methodological through line distinguished by “discourse analysis,” moving from the first contacts between Europe and Japanese Zen in the sixteenth century to late nineteenth–early twentieth-century transnational exchanges driven by Japanese Buddhists and intellectuals and the formation of a Zen art canon; to postwar Zen transformations of practice and avant-garde expressions; to popular embodiments of our “Zenny zeitgeist,” such as Zen cartoons. The book presents an alternative history of modern-contemporary Zen and Zen art that emphasizes their unruly and polythetic-prototypical natures, taking into consideration serious religious practice and spiritual and creative discovery as well as conflicts over Zen’s value amid the convolutions of global modernity, squabbles over authenticity, resistance against the notion of “Zen influence,” and competing claims to speak for Zen art made by monastics, lay advocates, artists, and others.

Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Blanvalet Verlag
Release: 2012-07-18
ISBN: 3641093384
Size: 79.76 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 832
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Die Seelen Der Nacht

by Deborah Harkness, Die Seelen Der Nacht Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Die Seelen Der Nacht books, Eine Liebe, stärker als das Leben selbst ... Diana Bishop ist Historikerin mit Leib und Seele. Dass in ihr zudem das Blut eines uralten Hexengeschlechts fließt, versucht sie im Alltag mit aller Kraft zu ignorieren. Doch als Diana in der altehrwürdigen Bodleian-Bibliothek in Oxford ein magisches Manuskript in die Hände fällt, kann sie ihre Herkunft nicht länger verleugnen: Hexen, Dämonen und Vampire heften sich an ihre Fersen, um ihr das geheime Wissen zu entlocken – wenn nötig mit Gewalt. Hilfe erfährt Diana ausgerechnet von Matthew Clairmont, Naturwissenschaftler, 1500 Jahre alter Vampir – und der Mann, der Diana bald schon mehr bedeuten wird als ihr eigenes Leben ... Ein mitreißender, wundervoll erzählter Roman über Magie, Abenteuer und Romantik.

Author: Jim Drobnick
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Release: 2006-05-01
ISBN: 9781845202132
Size: 60.62 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Smell Culture Reader

by Jim Drobnick, The Smell Culture Reader Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Smell Culture Reader books, Smell is fundamental to experience but mired in paradox. Stigmatized as animalistic, it nonetheless feeds a vast fragrance and marketing industry. Considered ephemeral, scents have survived throughout the ages in a number of religious practices. The Smell Culture Reader provides a much-needed overview of what is arguably the most elusive sense. From hygiene to aromatherapy, the fetid to the fragrant, smells are shown to be much more than just an adornment or a nuisance. Addressing this engaging sense in redolent detail, The Smell Culture Reader demonstrates how essential smell is to sexuality, social status, personal identity, and cultural tradition.

Author: Alain Corbin
Publisher:
Release: 2005
ISBN: 9783803136183
Size: 47.73 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 374
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Pesthauch Und Bl Tenduft

by Alain Corbin, Pesthauch Und Bl Tenduft Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Pesthauch Und Bl Tenduft books,

Author: Samuel Steward
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release: 2015-12-14
ISBN: 022630471X
Size: 15.74 MB
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Philip Sparrow Tells All

by Samuel Steward, Philip Sparrow Tells All Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Philip Sparrow Tells All books, Samuel Steward (1909–93) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared the considerable scope of his experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer whose publications ranged from scholarly articles to gay erotica (the latter appearing under the pen name Phil Andros). Perhaps his oddest authorial role was as a monthly contributor between 1944 and 1949 to the Illinois Dental Journal, an obscure trade publication for dentists, where writing as Philip Sparrow he produced a series of charming, richly allusive, and often quirky essays on a wildly eclectic assortment of topics. In Philip Sparrow Tells All, Jeremy Mulderig has collected thirty of these engaging but forgotten columns, prefacing them with revealing introductions that relate the essays to people and events in Steward’s life and to the intellectual and cultural contexts in which he wrote during the 1940s. In these essays we encounter such famous friends of Steward as Gertrude Stein, André Gide, and Thornton Wilder. We hear of his stint as a holiday sales clerk at Marshall Field’s (where he met and seduced fellow employee Rock Hudson), of his roles as an opera and ballet extra in hilariously shoddy costumes, of his hoarding tendencies, his disappointment with the drabness of men’s fashions, and his dread of turning forty. We go along with him to a bodybuilding competition and a pet cemetery, and together we wander the boulevards of Paris and the alleys of Algiers. Throughout, Mulderig’s entertaining annotations explain the essays’ wide-ranging allusions and also highlight their gay subtext, which constituted a kind of private game that Steward played with his mostly oblivious audience of Midwestern dentists. The first collection of any of Samuel Steward’s writings to be republished since his death in 1993, Philip Sparrow Tells All makes these lost essays available to a broad readership that Steward imagined but never actually enjoyed when he wrote them. In doing so, it takes a major step toward documenting his important place in twentieth-century gay literature and history.