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Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas)
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker’s art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world..
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Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects
Conspicuous Transformation is the major trend in visual and material culture today. Increasingly, a select group of artists, craftspeople, and designers are using a vast array of consumer goods as their raw material for object-making: athletic shoes, paper plates, plastic army men, pen caps, and more. By deploying techniques normally associated with the world of craft (such as sewing, weaving, crochet, collage, assemblage, and so forth) upon these synthetic items, they create something wholly new, something that combines the uniform and mass-produced with the unique and handmade. Their work provides an exciting new model for creativity, a way of showing how innovation, invention, and beauty can emerge from even the most familiar, ordinary, and seemingly banal products.A wide array of these exciting new art and design projects are presented here, with insightful commentary on the trends and cultural phenomenon that inform this process, in a volume published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland in 2008..
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On Account of Conspicuous Women: A Novel
Welcome to Roxboro, North Carolina, a crossroads hamlet where, in 1920, tobacco and bootleg liquor thrive and most folks seem to agree that women are meant to know their place. But four extraordinary, determined young ladies are about to leave their boot prints on this small Southern town, and nothing will ever be the same. Bertie, a hello-girl for Wheeler’s Telephone Company and the only woman in Person County to own a Model T, is staunch in her support for female suffrage, and has an opinion on everything, including church, Negro rights, matrimony, and men, and considers every one of those opinions worth listening to. Bertie’s cousin Guerine, perpetually engaged to her former desk-mate from their school days, believes there’s no problem that can’t be solved by either a fashionable dinner party or something ordered from the back of a women’s magazine. Her attempts at cooking and entertaining are legendary. Doodle is the quiet farmer’s daughter who can usually be found in men’s overalls, feeding her handmade dumplings to her prize-winning geese. When her father passes away, leaving her with a shocking secret, Doodle discovers there’s more to life than livestock . . . maybe even love. Newcomer Ina is a pampered debutante, a Virginia blue blood who seems far too glamorous to be teaching in Person County’s one-room schoolhouse, especially swathed in a cloud of tragedy: Her beloved husband dropped dead on their New York honeymoon. When these four very different ladies come together in friendship, facing struggles and earning triumphs, they realize that they can achieve almost anything. These delightful, conspicuous women will steal your heart and inspire your soul. On Account of Conspicuous Women is a wonderful tale of human nature, Southern gentility, and great social change in a small town. With her brilliant debut novel, Dawn Shamp has captured perfectly a slice of 1920s life that is still relevant today, and she has crafted a marvelous world you won’t want to leave.
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The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their findings, written in highly accessible prose, are surprising and important. Building on three economic concepts--signaling, signposting, and stretching--the book develops the first systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of art patronage and provides a broad and useful framework for understanding how works of art functioned in Renaissance Italy. The authors discuss how patrons used conspicuous commissions to establish and signal their wealth and status, and the book explores the impact that individual works had on society. The ways in which artists met their patrons' needs for self-promotion dramatically affected the nature and appearance of paintings, sculptures, and buildings. The Patron's Payoff presents a new conceptual structure that allows readers to explore the relationships among the main players in the commissioning game--patrons, artists, and audiences--and to understand how commissioned art transmits information. This book facilitates comparisons of art from different periods and shows the interplay of artists and patrons working to produce mutual benefits subject to an array of limiting factors. The authors engage several art historians to look at what economic models reveal about the material culture of Italy, ca. 13001600, and beyond. Their case studies address such topics as private chapels and their decorations, donor portraits, and private palaces. In addition to the authors, the contributors are Molly Bourne, Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, Thomas J. Loughman, and Larry Silver. .
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A Conspicuous Quiet
Jack Crain, a beloved son and a young man of promise and hope and quiet strength of charter, enlists in the United States Army after high school to earn money for a college education. With this one fateful step he is pulled into a war that he did not plan or want or understand. Through the experience of one foot soldier and his family-traced from birth to Baghdad-West Point graduate Jason Berndt makes the war in Iraq the palpable tragedy that it is. A Conspicuous Quiet is a parent-child love story that, in defense of love, presents a scathing social and political critique..
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Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture In Modern American Social Thought, Revised Edition
Originally published in 1996 and newly revised, Conspicuous Criticism is a ringing defense of the need for religion and tradition in contemporary society. Writing with moral passion and critical verve, Christopher Shannon offers a convincing indictment of the forces that isolate the individual in modern capitalist society and counters more than a century of efforts by modern intellectuals to displace tradition in favor of a humanism that actually diminishes humanity in the name of freeing its potential. Featuring in-depth analyses of the works of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, C. Wright Mills, and others, Conspicuous Criticism is a call to reinstate traditional relations to God, nature, and the common good. Scholars in fields from American studies to intellectual history will be forced to grapple with Shannon’s trenchant critique, which is well on its way to becoming a classic of Christian thought. “ Conspicuous Criticism inspired a concern about the modern world that in the years since I’ve not been able to brush aside.”—Eric Miller, First Things
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The Economics of Conspicuous Consumption: Theory and Thought Since 1700
A feature of the new consumer societies which has emerged in more recent years has been the growing economic and social importance of conspicuous consumption. Status-directed consumer demand, stimulated and promoted by the supply of products and services marketed as symbols of social identity and style, now represents a significant part of overall economic and commercial activity. Once regarded as a form of consumer behavior associated only with the rich and privileged, conspicuous consumption is today a worldwide phenomenon, easily observed at all social and economic levels and a major determinant of the nature and direction of consumer demand. The origins of modern-day conspicuous consumption can be traced to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to a time when the first consumer societies were being established. And as these new markets emerged, so economics struggled to come to terms with a form of socially-inspired consumer behavior with which it felt instinctively uneasy. Roger Mason traces the development of economic theory and thought since 1700 in its attempts to accommodate a new economics of conspicuous consumption This enlightening book will be of much interest to scholars, researchers and students of consumer behavior in economic theory, and will also be welcomed by those in the disciplines of sociology, psychology and business studies..
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Conspicuous Consumption (The World of Darkness : Werewolf)
Pursuing anonymous existences as normal American teenagers, a group of individuals know as the ""Lost Pups"" is summoned by their Garou parents to fight the evil Wyrm, who has abducted the Garou champion. .
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