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Material Cultures, 1740-1920 - The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Material Cultures, 1740-1920 - The Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial
contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a
significant contribution to debates around the status and
interpretation of visual and material culture. Material Cultures,
1740-1920 has four primary theoretical and historiographic lines of
inquiry. The first is how concepts of otherness and difference
inform, imbricate, and impose themselves on identity and the modes
of acquisition as well as the objects themselves. The second
concern explores the intricacies of how objects and their subjects
negotiate and represent spatial narratives. The third thread
attempts to unravel the ideological underpinnings of collections of
individuals which inevitably and invariably rub up against the
social, the institutional, and the political. Finally, at the heart
of Material Cultures, 1740-1920 is an intervention moving beyond
the disciplinary ethos of material culture to argue more firmly for
the aesthetic, visual, and semiotic potency inseparable from any
understanding of material objects integral to the lives of their
collecting subjects. The collection argues that objects are
semiotic conduits or signs of meanings, pleasures, and desires that
are deeply subjective; more often than not, they reveal racial,
gendered, and sexual identities. As the volume demonstrates through
its various case studies, material and visual cultures are not as
separate as our current disciplinary ethos would lead us to
believe.
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