| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the material of visual cultures; 1 Porcelain bodies: gender, acquisitiveness, and taste in eighteenth-century England; 2 Women's home-crafted objects as collections of culture and comfort, 1750-1900; 3 Spatializing the private collection: John Fiott Lee and Hartwell House; 4 'Everyone to his taste' or 'truth to material'?: the role of materials in collections of applied arts; 5 Collecting/painting harem/clothing |
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6 'Chinamania': collecting Old Blue for the House Beautiful, c. 1860-19007 From specimen to scrap: Japanese textiles in the British Victorian interior, 1875-1900; 8 Indian crafts and imperial policy: hybridity, purification, and imperial subjectivities; 9 Collecting peasant Europe: peasant utilitarian objects as museum artifacts; 10 Collecting intimacy one object at a time: material culture, perception, and the spaces of aesthetic companionship; 11 Collecting the sublime and the beautiful: from Romanticism to revolution in Celtic Revival jewelry; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Potvin, John
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| ISBN |
9781351558945 |
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1351558943 |
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