Factory distressing does not create a shared history with an object; visible clothing does not reveal someone’s thoughts. Things and People and Naked or Covered offer two routes through this collection: how we give objects meaning and how we interpret other people’s appearance. Follow a book card to an essay that separates observation from the explanation added to it.
Ukrainian edition cover. An English edition cover has not yet been verified.
Mineke Schipper explores the cultural meanings of clothing and nudity through historical examples, religious ideas, travel observations and public disputes. Modesty, bodily display and spectators’ judgements are examined as changing conventions, not a universal code. The source is the Ukrainian edition jointly published by Nika-Centre and Anetta Antonenko Publishers in 2019, translated from Dutch by Oksana Smerek. The English display title renders the Ukrainian title; no separate English edition was used here.
Ukrainian edition cover. An English edition cover has not yet been verified.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s essay explores consumption as a material relationship between people and things. Philosophical, economic and literary examples trace use, depletion and images of life in the world of objects. The source is the Ukrainian edition jointly published by Nika-Centre and Anetta Antonenko Publishers in 2018, verified against the publisher’s ISBN record. This English display title translates the Ukrainian title; it does not identify an English edition read here.
