Material cultures, 1740-1920 , c2009
- Title(s):
- 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.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNK1110 .M365 2009 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9056475
- Related Content:
- Table of contents only
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Decorative arts -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.Handicraft -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.
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- 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.