Design, Production and Reception of Eighteenth Century Wallpaper in - Britai

Zusatztext Finalist for the Historians of British Art book award"The book is geared to historians of material culture and design scholars. ... [Taylor] reaches her target audience by addressing and examining areas of greatest interest as the book is informative and packed with detailed information. This book would be of interest to anyone interested in wallpaper history! eighteenth-century industry or period interiors. Illustrations are plentiful! numerous endnotes follow each chapter! and there is an extensive bibliography."--Journal of Design History Informationen zum Autor Clare Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Art History, The Open University. Zusammenfassung Drawing on a wide range of little known examples of interior schemes and surviving wallpapers, together with unpublished evidence from archives including letters and bills, this book charts wallpaper’s evolution across the century from cheap textile imitation to innovative new decorative material. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1.‘Paper Hangings for Rooms’: the arrival of wallpaper; 2. A contested trade; 3. Imitation and the cross-cultural encounter: ‘India’ and ‘mock India’ papers, pictures and prints; 4. In search of propriety: flocks and plains; 5. Challenging the high arts: papier mâché, stucco papers and ‘landskip’ papers; 6. ‘Our modern paper hangings’: in search of the fashionable and the new; Epilogue: 'Pleasing decay' – the rediscovery of eighteenth-century wallpapers; Appendix 1: List of principal wallpapered rooms discussed, c.1714–c.1795; Appendix 2. List of eighteenth-century London paper hangings tradesmen discussed; Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Clare Taylor, Taylor Clare
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2018
• EAN: 9781472456151
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5615-1
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; DESIGN / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, ART / History / General, Furniture Design, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ART / Popular Culture, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Textile artworks, Architecture: interior design, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Textile artworks: tapestries, hangings & quilts, C 1700 To C 1800, ART / European / General