This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement -Steampunk- persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire and other symbolic trappings, what is most distinctive is its adherents' use of a machined aesthetic based on steam engines and early electrical machinery--gears, pistons, shafts, wheels, induction motors, clockwork and so forth.
Precursors to steampunk can be found in the works of...
This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement -Steampunk- persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic ...
This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement -Steampunk- persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire and other symbolic trappings, what is most distinctive is its adherents' use of a machined aesthetic based on steam engines and early electrical machinery--gears, pistons, shafts, wheels, induction motors, clockwork and so forth.
Precursors to steampunk can be found in the works of...
This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement -Steampunk- persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic ...