Mendings / Megan Sweeney.
"Through five formally distinct yet interlinked essays, Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments, and a broader story about clothes and mending as tools for navigating the vicissitudes of living. In dialogue with clothing lovers, fiber ar...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | "Through five formally distinct yet interlinked essays, Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments, and a broader story about clothes and mending as tools for navigating the vicissitudes of living. In dialogue with clothing lovers, fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and environmentalists, the book illuminates the crucial roles that clothing plays in enabling us to communicate; to cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others; to counter injustice and make meaning from violence and grief; and to experience the joys of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning. In addition to featuring artwork by Nina Katchadourian, Elena Herzog, Celia Pym, Merrill Goldstein, Gali Cnaani and others, Mendings includes photographs of childhood letters, family artifacts, journal entries, and paintings and sketches by the author and her family."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478016469 9781478016465 1478019107 9781478019107 1478023732 9781478023739 1478093595 9781478093596 |