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On the Button The Significance of an Ordinary Item

Hardcover • 2011 • English

On the Button The Significance of an Ordinary Item

By Nina Edwards

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About the book

What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections or it may give you nightmares. It has led to conflict, fostered and repressed political and religious change and epitomizes the great aesthetic movements. It's Eurocentric, and is found all over the world. On the Button is an inventive ...Show more

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ISBN

9781848855847

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

On the Button The Significance of an Ordinary Item

Format

Hardcover

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