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Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary
investigates the pictorial representation of types from the
sixteenth to the twenty- first century. Originating in longstanding
visual traditions, including street crier prints and costume
albums, these images share certain conventions as they seek to
convey knowledge about different peoples. The genre of the type
became widespread in the early modern period, developing into a
global language of identity. The chapters explore diverse pictorial
representations of types, customs, and dress in numerous media,
including paintings, prints, postcards, photographs, and garments.
Together, they reveal that the activation of typological
strategies, including seriality, repetition, appropriation, and
subversion has produced a universal and dynamic pictorial language.
Typological images highlight the tensions between the local and the
international, the specific and the communal, and similarity and
difference inherent in the construction of identity. The first
full- length study to treat these images as a broader genre, Visual
Typologies gives voice to a marginalized form of representation.
Together, the chapters debunk the classification of such images as
unmediated and authentic representations, offering fresh
methodological frameworks to consider their meanings locally and
globally, and establishing common ground about the operations of
objects that sought to shape, embody, or challenge individual and
collective identities.
A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces - motivated by a growing
sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the
labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetite for solace and
comfort - led to interiors taking on more specific roles in the
eighteenth century. By examining the architectural, visual, and
material culture of eighteenth-century spaces, Intimate Interiors
foregrounds the interrelated concepts of intimacy, privacy,
informality, and sociability in order to show how these ideas
played an increasingly integral role in the period's architectural
and material design. Across eleven innovative chapters that explore
issues of gender, politics, travel, exoticism, imperialism,
sensorial experiences, identity, interiority, and modernity, this
volume demonstrates how intimacy was a fundamental goal in the
planning of private quarters. In doing so, the political nature of
private spaces is uncovered, whilst highlighting the contradictions
and complexities of these highly performative "private" interiors.
Employing distinct methodological perspectives across various
geographical sites, from Turkey to Versailles, Britain to Benin,
Intimate Interiors draws as-yet untraced connections between
Enlightenment Europe, imperial outposts, and major metropolitan
centers across the globe.
Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary
investigates the pictorial representation of types from the
sixteenth to the twenty- first century. Originating in longstanding
visual traditions, including street crier prints and costume
albums, these images share certain conventions as they seek to
convey knowledge about different peoples. The genre of the type
became widespread in the early modern period, developing into a
global language of identity. The chapters explore diverse pictorial
representations of types, customs, and dress in numerous media,
including paintings, prints, postcards, photographs, and garments.
Together, they reveal that the activation of typological
strategies, including seriality, repetition, appropriation, and
subversion has produced a universal and dynamic pictorial language.
Typological images highlight the tensions between the local and the
international, the specific and the communal, and similarity and
difference inherent in the construction of identity. The first
full- length study to treat these images as a broader genre, Visual
Typologies gives voice to a marginalized form of representation.
Together, the chapters debunk the classification of such images as
unmediated and authentic representations, offering fresh
methodological frameworks to consider their meanings locally and
globally, and establishing common ground about the operations of
objects that sought to shape, embody, or challenge individual and
collective identities.
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