Download or read book The Straight Razor Renaissance written by Robert Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, Robert Williams, was the first full time custom razor smith in the USA and produced thousands of custom razors during his 15 years in operation. This book tells the story of the straight razor renaissance we have seen in the new millennium and gives a reader everything they need to know about straight razors from the most inexperienced beginner to the most experienced razor smith.Straight razors are still arguably the finest shaving devices ever created and the author explains them in a way that is informative and interesting. Readers will get an in-depth view of: Straight razor historyDesignUseHoningMaintenanceBuying tipsSetting up a shopMaking the blades and scalesMetallurgyRepairing damaged razorsAdvanced razor making techniquesThis is a must-have book for any man that likes grooming or good sharp steel blades of any kind.
Download or read book The Art Of Shaving written by Naked Armor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to straight razor shaving.The object of this little book is to furnish clear and full information about the art of shaving. There are few men who do not experience more or less difficulty in shaving themselves with the straight razor, and many who, after a few unsuccessful attempts, give it up in despair and go to the barber shop. We believe most of these would much prefer to shave themselves if only they could do as well as a barber. The advantages, indeed, seem to be wholly with the man who shaves himself. In the first place the shaving is done in the privacy if his own room. He has his own razor, cup, soap, brush and towels, which can be kept scrupulously clean and sanitary, thus avoiding the constant danger of infection. There is no long wait for the call of "next". After the first cost of the outfit there is nothing to pay, either for services or "tips." Thus in point of time, money and health the man who shaves himself is a decided gainer."These early years of the 21st century have seen a resurgence in the use of the straight razor, the dreaded "cut-throat". Where once lathering up in front of a mirror with a brush of badger was seen as something "old guys do", appreciation of the straight razor shave has come full circle. Almost universally known to give a far better shave than the modern cassette style safety razors, and resharpenable to boot, the straight is seen by many not just as a nostalgic piece of personal grooming equipment, but as an integral part of the daily morning ritual. This book, first penned in 1905 by an unknown writer for an obscure correspondence course company in the United States, has finally found its place. It has found itself to be the Great Manifesto of the Shaving Renaissance. Get back to basics, learn the manly art of shaving.
Download or read book Straight Razors written by Renzo Jardella and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The San Francisco Renaissance written by Michael Davidson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Renaissance is the first review of this major American literary movement.
Download or read book The Standard Guide to Razors written by Roy Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of shaving equipment and provides lists of manufacturers of straight razors and the value of their products as collectibles
Download or read book Straight Razor Collecting written by Robert A. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back written by Charles Reeve and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists’ autobiographies: truth in life and truth in art; authorial truth/s and the truth of their art as they saw it. However, this book focuses specifically on the truth of sincerity, which here—following classic discussions by Reindert Dhondt, Philippe Lejeune and Lionel Trilling—appears as a truth to self that floats free from facts to link avowal and feeling. From there, this volume merges autobiography studies with a history of ideas approach to art to trace sincerity’s constancy and variability across times and cultures. Through this pre-disciplinary dialogue, this book shows that recent and historical artists’ autobiographies differ in how, not if, they intertwine sincerity in life and art. Along the way, this volume leverages the foregrounding of sincerity caused by this doubling to explore such key issues of autobiography studies as autobiography’s relation to fiction, serial autobiography, "as-told-to" narrative and what happens when liars claim to tell all.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance written by Edith Snook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magic, courtship, and art, amongst other things. On the body, Renaissance men and women often considered hair a signifier of order and civility. Hair style and the head coverings worn by many throughout the period marked not only the wearer's engagement with fashion, but also moral, religious, social, and political beliefs. Hair established individuals' positions in the period's social hierarchy and signified class, gender, and racial identities, as well as distinctions of age and marital and professional status. Such a meaningful part of the body, however, could also be disorderly, when it grew where it wasn't supposed to or transgressed the body's boundaries by being wild, uncovered, unpinned, or uncut. A natural material with cultural import, hair weaves together the Renaissance histories of fashion, politics, religion, gender, science, medicine, art, literature, and material culture. A necessarily interdisciplinary study, A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance explores the multiple meanings of hair, as well as the ideas and practices it inspired. Separate chapters contemplate Religion and Ritualized Belief, Self and Society, Fashion and Adornment, Production and Practice, Health and Hygiene, Sexuality and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Social Status, and Cultural Representations.
Download or read book The New Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance written by Australia Tarver and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the discourse on the Harlem Renaissance into more recent crucial areas for literary scholars, college instructors, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and Harlem Renaissance aficionados. These selected essays, authored by mostly new critics in Harlem Renaissance studies, address critical discourse in race, cultural studies, feminist studies, identity politics, queer theory, and rhetoric and pedagogy. While some canonical writers are included, such as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke, others such as Dorothy West, Jessie Fauset, and Wallace Thurman have equal footing. Illustrations from several books and journals help demonstrate the vibrancy of this era. Australia Tarver is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University. Paula C. Barnes is an Associate Professor of English at Hampton University.
Download or read book Getting to Know Your Straight Razors written by Phillip Krumholz and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hair written by Victoria Sherrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular volume on the culture of hair through human history and around the globe has been updated and revised to include even more entries and current information. How we style our hair has the ability to shape the way others perceive us. For example, in 2017, the singer Macklemore denounced his hipster undercut hairstyle, a style that is associated with Hitler Youth and alt-right men, and in 2015, actress Rose McGowan shaved her head in order to take a stance against the traditional Hollywood sex symbol stereotype. This volume examines how hair-or lack thereof-can be an important symbol of gender, class, and culture around the world and through history. Hairstyles have come to represent cultural heritage and memory, and even political leanings, social beliefs, and identity. This second edition builds upon the original volume, updating all entries that have evolved over the last decade, such as by discussing hipster culture in the entries on beards and mustaches and recent medical breakthroughs in hair loss. New entries have been added that look at specific world regions, hair coverings, political symbolism behind certain styles, and other topics.
Download or read book The Art of Shaving written by 20th Century Correspondence School and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers complete instructions for shaving with a straight razor.
Download or read book Saturn from Antiquity to the Renaissance written by Massimo Ciavolella and published by Dovehouse Editions (Canada). This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survival of an Urban Renaissance Man written by Lawrence West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of a modern day adventurer. This epic journey starts from early childhood and follows him through military travels and experiences in Europe, Hawaii (US), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Korea and stateside Drill Sergeant assignments. Follow the first hand and very often death defying combat patrols and military relationships leading to death. The action differs but continues through from beginning to the last page. Hold on for excitement and real life-like adventure that you've seldom seen before.
Download or read book Straight Razor written by Wade and Batcher and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight razor made of wood, bone, and metal.
Download or read book Hair written by Susan J. Vincent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, film, personal diaries, newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the 1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture, remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.
