| Description |
xiii, 234 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Decorative arts -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.
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Handicraft -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.
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Material culture -- Collectors and collecting.
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Material culture -- History.
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| Author |
Myzelev, Alla.
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Potvin, John.
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| LC no. |
2008036049 |
| ISBN |
075466144X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780754661443 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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