Titre et auteur:

Material cultures, 1740-1920 : the meanings and pleasures of collecting / edited by John Potvin and Alla Myzelev.

Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Description:

xiii, 234 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Série(s):

An Ashgate book

Notes:
Originally published in 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Résumé:

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.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781138269729 pbk
1138269727

Sujet:

Decorative arts Collectors and collecting Great Britain.
Handicraft Collectors and collecting Great Britain.
Arts décoratifs Collectionneurs et collections Grande-Bretagne.
Artisanat Collectionneurs et collections Grande-Bretagne.
Decorative arts Collectors and collecting.
Kunstgewerbe Sammeln Grossbritannien Geschichte 19. Jh.
Kunstgewerbe Sammeln Grossbritannien Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sammeln Kunstgewerbe Grossbritannien Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sammeln Kunstgewerbe Grossbritannien Geschichte 19. Jh.
Great Britain.

Vedettes secondaires:

Potvin, John editor.
Myzelev, Alla, editor.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 298157
Cote: BIB 244432
Statut: Disponible