John Potvin: Bachelors of a different sort

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Beschreibung

The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.

Über den Autor

John Potvin is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor
Part I: Wilde spaces
2. 'God save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva
3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor
Part II: Country living
4. Askesis and the Greek Ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House
5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal
Part III: Stage design for living
6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity
7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance
8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one's own
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Studies in Design and Material Culture
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781784991098
ISBN-10:	1784991090
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Potvin, John
Redaktion:	Breward, Christopher Sherman, Bill
Hersteller:	Manchester University Press Studies in Design and Material Culture
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	John Potvin
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.12.2015
Gewicht:	0,568 kg