Material cultures, 1740-1920 : the meanings and pleasures of collecting / edited by John Potvin and Alla Myzelev.
Published / Created:
Farnham, England ; Ashgate, c2009.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Physical Description:
xiii, 234 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008036049.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the material of visual cultures / John Potvin and Alla Myzelev -- Porcelain bodies: acquisitiveness, gender, and taste in eighteenth-century England / Stacey Sloboda -- Home crafted objects as culture and comfort / 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 art / 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 jewelry / Joseph McBrinn.
Subject Terms:
Decorative arts -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain. | Handicraft -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.