Cultural passions : fans, aesthetes and tarot readers / Elizabeth Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

ix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Cultural Diseases

1.Introduction

2.Pleasure's Dangers

3.Looking Backwards: Nostalgia Mode

pt. Two Fashion

4.Magic Fashion

5.Glamour: The Secret Behind the Sheen

6.Dressed to Kill

7.Camouflage and its Vicissitudes

8.Fashion and Memory

9.Urbane Fashion

pt. Three The Future We Have Lost

10.Austerity in Retrospect: The Glamour of Masochism

11.Post-war Perverts

12.Bethnal Green

pt. Four Magic Moments

13.Modern Magic

14.`Disoriented Agnosticism': Reading the Tarot

15.Secret Worlds

16.Temporary Gods

17.Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780762852

1780762852

1780762860

9781780762869

OCLC:

851119589