Faux Real : : Genuine Leather and 2 Years of Inspired Fakes / / Robert Kanigel.
What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know.Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth centur...
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Kanigel, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Faux Real : Genuine Leather and 2 Years of Inspired Fakes / Robert Kanigel. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2010 1 online resource (296 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Imitating the Inimitable -- 1. Material World -- 2. "Let the Good Work Go On" -- 3. Leather Alive -- 4. Bizarre Effects -- 5. One Nature -- 6. Nothing Like Leather -- 7. "All Shortcomings Have Been Eliminated" -- 8. Top Grain -- Part II. Inspired Fakes -- 9. What Nature Had in Mind -- 10. Crocodile Dreams -- 11. Vera Pelle -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs, it's hard to know.Over the centuries, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake things seem real. As early as the fourteenth century, fabric was treated with special oils to make it resemble leather. In the 1870s came Leatherette, a new bookbinding material. The twentieth century gave us Fabrikoid, Naugahyde, Corfam, and Ultrasuede. Each claims to transcend leather's limitations, to do better than nature itself-or at least to convince consumers that it does.Perhaps more than any other natural material, leather stands for the authentic and the genuine. Its animal roots etched in its pores and in the swirls of its grain, leather serves as cultural shorthand for the virtues of the real over the synthetic, the original over the copy, the luxurious over the shoddy and second-rate. From formica, vinyl siding, and particle board to cubic zirconium, knockoff designer bags, and genetically altered foods, inspired fakes of every description fly the polyester pennant of a brave new man-made world. Each represents a journey of scientific, technical, and entrepreneurial innovation. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Clothing trade History. Leather substitutes History. Leather, Artificial History. Leather, Artificial. American History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Textile Industry. bisacsh American Studies. Business. Cultural Studies. Economics. History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Social Sciences 9783110413618 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812221329 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205596 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205596 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205596/original |
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