Bachelors of a Different Sort - Queer Aesthetics, Material Culture and the Modern Interior in Britain

Informationen zum Autor John Potvin is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal Klappentext Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957 -- . 1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor Wilde spaces 2. 'God save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-a-brac diva 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor Country living 4. Askesis and the Greek Ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal Stage design for living 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one's own Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: John Potvin
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780719084997
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8499-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Sociology, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain