Gloves: an intimate history

by Green, Anne

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Title Statements

Full title :Gloves : an intimate history / Anne Green.

Summary

This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their cultural significance. From hand-knitted mittens to exquisitely embroidered confections, and from the three-fingered gloves of medieval shepherds to Bluetooth-enabled examples that function like a mobile phone, gloves' extraordinary variety is a tribute to human ingenuity. So, too, is the remarkable diversity of their-often contradictory-cultural associations. They have been linked to honor, identity, and status, but also to decadence and deceit. In this book, Anne Green discusses gloves both as material objects with their own fascinating history and as fictional creations in folktales, literature, films, etiquette manuals, paintings, and advertisements. Looking to the runway, Green even explores their recent resurgence as objects of high fashion.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Reaktion books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:240 pages : : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1789144582, 9781789144581
oclc:on1243350602
LC Classification:GT2170
Dewey Decimal:391.41209

'Musk-scented, fragrant, invented by Venus': early gloves -- Tranks, forgits and quirks: making gloves -- 'Tear at the thumb, troubles to come': the language of gloves -- 'Fashioned by the craft of devils, and with skins of the dragon': magical gloves -- 'Place this glove neere thy heart': gloves and loves -- Archers, artists and astronauts: functions old and new.