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The uses of excess in visual and material culture, 1600-2010
Title
The uses of excess in visual and material culture, 1600-2010 / edited by Julia Skelly.
ISBN
9781409442370 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409442373 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Physical Description
xvi, 304 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, color) ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 20, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the uses of excess / Julia Skelly
All that glitters: diamonds and constructions of nabobery in British portraits, 1600-1800 / Romita Ray
'Every other place it could be placed with advantage': ladies-in-waiting at the British court and the 'excessive' display of ceramics as art objects, 1689-1740 / Eric Weichel
Consuming excess: pronk poppenhuisen and the dollhouses of Sara Rothé van Amstel / Michelle Moseley-Christian
Excess, fetish, exotic: the profusion and confusion of virtual things in Victorian painting / Julie F. Codell
Excess on the walls: Victorian exhibition culture and the anxieties of art and commerce / Anne Helmreich
The paradox of excess: Oscar Wilde, caricature, and consumption / Julia Skelly
Toronto's Casa Loma: from nostalgia to glamour and back again / Alla Myzelev
Homosexuality/modernism/nationalism: between excess and exile in 1920s Europe / John Potvin
Excesses of the bawdy body: John Wentworth Russell and his modern girls, 1927-1935 / Karen Stanworth
For the love of God: excess, ambivalence, and Damien Hirst's diamond skull / Jeremy Biles
'Your asshole is hanging outside of your body?': excess, AIDs, and shame in the theater of Sky Gilbert / Dirk Gindt.
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