Chinoiserie by Stacey Sloboda
In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was instead a critical commentator on that culture. Analysing ceramics, wallpaper, furniture, garden architecture and other significant examples of British and Chinese design, this book takes an object-focused approach to studying the cultural phenomenon of the 'Chinese taste' in eighteenth-century Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the critical history of design and the decorative arts in the period, and students and scholars of art history, material culture, eighteenth-century studies and British history will find a novel approach to studying the decorative arts and a forceful argument for their critical capacities.-
The culture of fashion
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The culture of craft
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The autobiography of a nation
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The Study of Dress History
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Arts and Crafts objects
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Quotations on Design and Material Culture
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Italian graphic design
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The Birth of Modern London
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Victorian Furniture
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The Edwardian House
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The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
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Graphic Design - Reproduction & Representation
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Turning revolt into style
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Material Relations
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The Material Renaissance
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Windows for the World
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European Fashion
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Out of the Ivory Tower
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Enid Marx’s material modern
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Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945–2010
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
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Confessions of monuments
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Celebrating the city
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Becoming couture
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'The industrialized designer'
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Art versus Industry?
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Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Anna of Denmark
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Critical Design in Japan
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Ideal Homes, 1918-39
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Building Reputations
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Comradely Objects
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Political and Sartorial Styles
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Crafting Identities
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Hot Metal
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Crafting Design in Italy
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Surface Tensions
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Representations of British Motoring
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Bringing Modernity Home
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Precarious objects
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Threads of globalization
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At home with the poor
'Sloboda's articulation of chinoiserie as "critical ornament," a versatile visual and material language used to express and reveal various commercial attitudes in Britain, from trading to manufacturing to buying and consuming, needs to be commendedIt is an important contribution to a wider understanding of the complex nature and multi-layered meaning of chinoiserie.'
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, Senior lecturer in British history, Université Lille 3, The Art bulletin, CAA March 2016
Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780719089459 |
| ISBN 10 | 071908945X |
| Title | Chinoiserie |
| Author | Stacey Sloboda |
| Series | Studies In Design And Material Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |