The Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth-Century Wallpaper in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367666408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Clare Taylor

Opis

Drawing on a wide range of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives including letters and bills, this book charts wallpaper’s evolution across the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new decorative material.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1.‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: the arrival of wallpaper; 2. A contested trade; 3. Imitation and the cross-cultural encounter: ‘India’ and ‘mock India’ papers, pictures and prints; 4. In search of propriety: flocks and plains; 5. Challenging the high arts: papier mâché, stucco papers and ‘landskip’ papers; 6. ‘Our modern paper hangings’: in search of the fashionable and the new; Epilogue: 'Pleasing decay' – the rediscovery of eighteenth-century wallpapers; Appendix 1: List of principal wallpapered rooms discussed, c.1714–c.1795; Appendix 2. List of eighteenth-century London paper hangings tradesmen discussed; Bibliography

O autorze

Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University.