Main entry:

Grier, Katherine C., 1953-

Title & Author:

Culture & comfort : people, parlors, and upholstery, 1850-1930 / Katherine C. Grier.

Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Strong Museum ; Amherst, Mass. : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press, ©1988.

Description:

x, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Strong Museum, Sept. 8, 1988 to Jan. 16, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-331) and index.
Introduction: symbols and sensibility -- Imagining the parlor -- The comfortable theater: parlor making in the middle-class Victorian household, 1850-1910 -- "Orthodox as the hymn book": the rhetoric of parlor furnishing, 1850-1910 -- Bodily comfort and spring-seat upholstery -- The quest for refinement: reconstructing the aesthetics of upholstery, 1850-1910 -- Comfort and glitter: popular taste for French and Turkish upholstery, 1875-1910 -- Parlor suites and lounges: culture and comfort in factory-made seating furniture -- Window and door drapery: creating the comfortable theater -- Making do: homemade and recycled upholstery -- Victorianism in the modern era: at home in the living room, 1910-1930.

ISBN:

0940365014
9780940365018
0870236644
9780870236648

Subject:

Material culture United States Exhibitions.
Living rooms United States History Exhibitions.
Upholstery United States History Exhibitions.
Culture matérielle États-Unis Expositions.
Living rooms
Manners and customs
Material culture
Upholstery
United States Social life and customs 19th century Exhibitions.
United States Social life and customs 1865-1918 Exhibitions.
United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 Exhibitions.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle Expositions.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 1865-1918 Expositions.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 1918-1945 Expositions.
United States
United States Homes, 1850-1930 - Sociological perspectives.
antropologie
anthropology
etnografie
ethnography
tentoonstellingen
exhibitions
meubilair
furniture
geschiedenis
history
shows
sociaal milieu
social environment
vs
usa
gebruik
usage
volkscultuur
folk culture
gebruiken
customs
volkenkunde
ethnology
kamers
rooms
sociale situatie
social situation
sociografie
sociography
Economic, Social, and Cultural History of America
Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschiedenis van Amerika

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Strong Museum.
Culture and comfort.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 49403
Call No.: ID EXHROCHESTER; ID:89-B8408
Status: Available