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Bachelors of a Different Sort Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain.
This title considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britainbetween 1885 and 1957.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies in Design and Material Culture Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor
- I. Wilde spaces
- 'God Save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric- à- brac diva
- Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor
- II. Country living
- Askesis and the Greek ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House
- Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur LettHaines and the decorative ideal
- III. Stage design for living
- Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity
- Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance
- Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one's own
- Select bibliography
- Index