Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 - Materiality, Sociability and Emotion (Hardcover)

Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was experienced, expressed, and understood at this time. Examining craft production and collection, gift exchange and written description, inheritance and loss, it carefully unpacks the material processes that made the home a focus for contemporaries’ social and emotional lives. The first book on its subject, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 employs methodologies from both art history and material culture studies to examine previously unpublished interiors, spaces, texts, images, and objects. Utilising extensive archival research; visual, material, and textual analysis; and histories of emotion, sociability, and materiality, it sheds light on the decoration and reception of a broad array of domestic spaces. In so doing, it writes a new history of late 18th- and early 19th-century domestic space, establishing the materiality of the home as a crucial site for identity formation, social interaction, and emotional expression.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Material Culture of Art and Design
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	Freya Gowrley
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-4336-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5013-4336-X
Barcode:	9781501343360

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