Fans
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Fans
（Shire album, 243）（The Shire book）
Shire Publications, 2002
2nd ed., rev. and expanded with col. ill
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"First published 1989"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book traces the history of fans from biblical times to the present day. Fans are made from a wide variety of materials and in numerous different shapes and sizes, and they come from many diverse cultures. Originating as an everyday functional object, the fan rapidly acquired ceremonial and social significance, becoming the utilitarian sceptre of kings, the subject of conversation for blue-stockings of the seventeenth century, the toy of frivolous ladies, the vehicle of revolutionary messages, the sentimental possession of the Victorians, the mirror of the Belle Epoque, and an advertising gimmick. Above all, fans are hand-crafted objects and therefore no two are identical, which makes recording and classsifying them an absorbing and fascinating historical adventure.
Table of Contents
- The earliest fans
- From fixed to folding fans
- Fans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Fans of the nineteenth century
- Fans in modern times
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Places to visit
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