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Transformative Jars
The term ‘jar’ refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – regardless of whether they contain …
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840
Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from 1750-1840, this book demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was …
Domestic Space in France and Belgium
Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it …
Material Selves
What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common? Prized, possessed and modelled, they highlight the …
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century
Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth …
Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity
This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimist art — a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by Édouard Vuillard …
Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940
Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity …
The Gallery at Cleveland House
In 1806, the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford opened a gallery at Cleveland House, London, to display their internationally-renowned collection of Old Master paintings to the …
Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain
The 18th century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings …
Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe
By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case …
The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914
Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards, 2023 During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established body of skilled jewellers who were …
Ceramics in the Victorian Era
This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. …