A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

Christina M. Anderson, Dr Elizabeth A. Carroll (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7787-0 (ISBN)

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The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial developments resulted in a number of benefits from a growing middle class to efficiency, convenience and innovation across a range of fields from engineering to architecture. Alongside these improvements, the century began with the extended period of the Napoleonic Wars and was further disrupted by rebellions and revolutions both within Europe and in India, South America and other parts of the world. Slavery was abolished and urbanization increased dramatically.

These myriad developments were reflected throughout the period in the proliferation of types of furniture, along with their categorization as 'industrial art' at the international exhibitions and world fairs and the increasingly adventurous range of materials that were sometimes used in their construction. Nonetheless, a strong antiquarian/historicist strand also prompted interest in the revival of past styles in areas of art and design, including furniture.

Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Catherine L. Futter is Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, Brooklyn Museum, USA Christina Anderson is Senior Research Associate, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London, UK

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface

Introduction, Catherine L. Futter and Christina M. Anderson

1. Design and Motifs, M. B. Aldrich
2. Makers, Making, and Materials, Christina M. Anderson
3. Types and Uses, Camille Mestdagh
4. The Domestic Setting: Self, Stories, and Furniture in the Nineteenth-Century, Amy G. Richter
5. The Public Setting, Sylvain Cordier
6. Exhibition and Display, Catherine L. Futter
7. Furniture and Architecture, David Oakey
8. Visual Representations, Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
9. Verbal Representations: Writing Tables and Reading Chairs - Verbal-Textual-Intertextual Representations of Furniture, Emma Ferry

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Co-Autor	Professor Megan Aldrich
Zusatzinfo	43 colour and 41 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4725-7787-6 / 1472577876
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7787-0 / 9781472577870
Zustand	Neuware