Material Cultures, 1740-1920 : The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting

ISBN-13: 9780754661443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 250 str.

John Potvin;Alla Myzelev

Opis

Interweaving considerations of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: the material of visual cultures, John Potvin and Alla Myzelev; Porcelain bodies: gender, acquisitiveness and taste in 18th-century England, Stacey Sloboda; Women's home-crafted objects as collections of culture and comfort 1750-1900, Clive Edwards; Spatializing the private collection: John Fiott Lee and Hartwell House, Anastasia Filippoupoliti; 'Everyone to his taste' or 'truth to material'?: the role of materials in collections of applied arts, Nadine Rottau; Collecting/painting harem/clothing, Joan DelPlato; 'Chinamania': collecting Old Blue for the house beautiful c 1860-1900, Anne Anderson; From specimen to scrap: Japanese textiles in the British Victorian interior, 1875-1900, Elizabeth Kramer; Indian crafts and imperial policy: hybridity, purification and imperial subjectivities, Julie F. Codell; Collecting peasant Europe: peasant utilitarian objects as museum artifacts, Alla Myzelev; Collecting intimacy one object at a time: material culture, perception and the spaces of aesthetic companionship, John Potvin; Collecting the sublime and the beautiful: from romanticism to revolution in Celtic revival jewellery, Joseph McBrinn; Index.